Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French page (French page) young male servant (c1225), boy or youth generally of noble birth attached to the service of a person of high rank (second half of the 14th cent.), of uncertain origin. Compare post-classical Latin pagius young servant, personal attendant of person of high rank (from late 13th cent. in British sources, from early 14th cent. in continental sources), Old Occitan page (14th cent.), Catalan patge (c1400), Spanish paje (1379–84 as page), Portuguese pajem (14th cent. as paie, 15th cent. as paje), Italian paggio (second half of the 14th cent.).It has been suggested that Anglo-Norman and Old French page may have been derived < Italian paggio (and a further etymology ultimately < ancient Greek παίδιον boy proposed for this), but the French word is attested significantly earlier than the Italian. For summary of other suggestions see Trésor de la langue française at page. Apparently attested earlier in surnames, from the first half of the 13th cent., as e.g. Serlo le Page (1234), Walt. Page (1236), Will. le Page (1240), though it is unclear whether these are to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French page (1160–74 in Old French in sense ‘each of the two sides of a leaf of a book, manuscript, letter, etc.’, 1534 in sense ‘the material which is written on one side of a leaf of a book, etc.’) < classical Latin pāgina a written page, a piece of writing < pag- , stem of pangere to fix, settle, compose < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek πηγνύναι to fix, make solid (see pectic adj.) + -ina , suffix forming nouns. Compare earlier pagine n. Compare Italian pagina (c1485), Spanish página (1490), Portuguese página (17th cent.).

Etymology: < page n.¹

Etymology: < page n.²