English
pagination
Pagination comes from Latin pagina ‘a piece of writing’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to fasten, fix’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-‘to fasten, fix’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpagina‘a piece of writing’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpagination
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-‘to fasten, fix’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpagina‘a piece of writing’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentpagination
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to fasten, fix’
travel, pole, propaganda, compact, pale, peel, peasant, pagan, pageant, propagate, travail, pala, palisade, impinge, pectin, impactor, 28 more
through Latin pagina ‘a piece of writing’
Today it means
noun The act of creating pages for a document, book, etc., or determining when to truncate text on the pages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- / pagination