"page" in seven languages
Meaningpage
Spanish
página
/ˈpaxina/
fem.learned
French
page
/paʒ/
fem.learned
An early clerks' word (Old French pagine), worn down to one syllable but not by the popular route.
Italian
pagina
/ˈpadʒina/
fem.learned
Portuguese
página
/ˈpaʒinɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
pagină
/ˈpadʒinə/
fem.learned
Catalan
pàgina
/ˈpaʒinə/
fem.learned
English
page
/peɪdʒ/
from Latin/French · Old French page
English → ItalianpagepaginaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PĀGINAM‘column of writing, page (originally a row of vines)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish and Italian keep the Latin stress on the first of three syllables (página, pagina); French and English cut the word down to one.
English relatives: page, paginate, pagination
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In a sentence
- esAbrid el libro por la página diez.
- frOuvrez vos livres à la page dix.
- itAprite il libro a pagina dieci.
- ptAbram o livro na página dez.
- roDeschideți cartea la pagina zece.
- caObriu el llibre per la pàgina deu.
- enOpen your books to page ten.
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