pagina Latin · revision 3764

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=ine-pro *peh₂ǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpaː.ɡɪ.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpaː.d͡ʒi.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pāgina''' ''f'' (genitive pāginae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is derived from the root of [[pango|alt=pangō]] “to fix, fasten”, like [[pagus|alt=pāgus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) The verb is [[inh|itc-pro|*pang-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*ph₂-n-ǵ-]].^(de Vaan 2008) The sense may come from papyrus sheets fastened to one another, or from letters “fixed” on them.^(Wiktionary) Festus says pages are so called because verses are fastened on them.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Cicero onwards,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who writes “while I was holding this page” in a letter to his brother.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a column or page of writing on a papyrus roll, a leaf of a book, and by extension a piece of writing or a book.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Cicero speaks of the last page of Plato's Phaedrus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Pliny the Elder used it of the leaf of a door.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it was a charter or will, ''sacra pagina'' was Holy Scripture, and it also meant a pageant in a cycle of mystery plays, or the stage it was played on.^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) English ''page'' came from it through French in the 1580s, and ''pageant'' perhaps from its medieval sense in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a page of a letter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of door leaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''pageant'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1580s – English ''page'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A column or [[m|en|page]] of writing; a leaf.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A piece of writing; a book.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # The leaf of a door.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A charter, legal document, ''sacra pagina'': Holy Scripture.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|pageant]]; its stage.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pāgella]]

+ * [[pāginula]]

+ * [[pāginālis]]

+ * [[pāginātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pāgus]]

+ * [[pāngō]]

+ * [[en|page]]

+ * [[en|pageant]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}