different between page vs bodkin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology 1

Via Middle French from Latin p?gina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh??-. Doublet of pagina.

Noun

page (plural pages)

1. One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
2. One side of a paper leaf on which one has written or printed.
3. (figuratively) Any record or writing; a collective memory.

4. (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
5. (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content.
6. (Internet) A web page.
7. (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.

Synonyms

• (side of a leaf): folio, side
• (record, writing): account, record

Hyponyms

• (Internet): homepage, Web page, webpage
• (computing, Internet): help page, man page, manpage

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (peiji)

Translations

References

• page on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

1. (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
2. (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.

3. (transitive) To furnish with folios.

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Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek ??????? (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from ???? (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions". Used in English from the 13th century onwards.

Noun

page (plural pages)

1. (obsolete) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
2. (Britain) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
3. (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
4. (in libraries) The common name given to an employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
5. A boy child.
6. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
7. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
8. A message sent to someone's pager.
9. Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (serving boy): page boy
• (boy child): boy

Translations

Verb

page (third-person singular simple present pages, present participle paging, simple past and past participle paged)

1. (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
2. (transitive, US, obsolete in UK) To call or summon (someone).
3. (transitive) To contact (someone) by means of a pager or other mobile device.

4. (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system so as to find them.

Translations

Anagrams

• gape, peag

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.??/
• Hyphenation: pa?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch page, from Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek ??????? (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from ???? (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Noun

page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

1. (historical) page (boy serving a knight or noble, often of the noble estate)

   Synonym: edelknaap

2. A page, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.

   Synonyms: ridder, ridderkapel

Derived terms

• koninginnenpage
• pagekapsel
• pagekop

References

• “page” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French page, from Old French page, from Latin pagina.

Noun

page m (plural pages, diminutive pagetje n)

1. (archaic) page (sheet of paper)

   Synonyms: blad, bladzijde, pagina

Related terms

• pagina

Anagrams

• gape

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Old French page, a borrowing from Latin p?gina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

Noun

page f (plural pages)

1. page (of a book, etc.)
2. page, web page

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek ??????? (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from ???? (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Noun

page m (plural pages)

1. page, page boy

Further reading

• “page” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

p?ge

1. vocative singular of p?gus

Norman

Etymology

From Old French page, from Latin p?gina (“page, strip of papyrus fastened to others”).

Noun

page f (plural pages)

1. (Jersey) page

Old French

Alternative forms

• paige
• parge

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.d??/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin p?gina.

Noun

page f (oblique plural pages, nominative singular page, nominative plural pages)

1. page (one face of a sheet of paper or similar material)

Descendants

• English: page
• French: page
• Norman: page (Jersey)

Etymology 2

Disputed, see page in English above.

Noun

page m (oblique plural pages, nominative singular pages, nominative plural page)

1. page (youth attending a person of high degree)

Descendants

• English: page
• French: page
• Italian: paggio
• Polish: pa?

Spanish

Noun

page m (plural pages)

1. page, pageboy

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”), probably from Ancient Greek ??????? (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from ???? (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of "boy from the rural regions".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/

Noun

page c

1. page, serving boy

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• bodikin, bodkine, botkin, boidken

Etymology

From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?dk?n/

Noun

bodkin (plural bodkins)

1. A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
2. A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
3. A hairpin.
4. A dagger.
   • 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Ship of Death:

     And can a man his own quietus make / with a bare bodkin? / With daggers, bodkins, bullets, man can make / a bruise or break of exit for his life; / but is that a quietus, O tell me, is it quietus?

5. A type of long thin arrowhead.
6. (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters letters from a column or page in making corrections.

Translations

Adverb

bodkin (not comparable)

1. Closely wedged between two people.
   • 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. page 343.

     He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.

Further reading

• bodkin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobkin