paginate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.

Pronunciation

• enPR: păj'ən-āt, IPA^(key): /ˈpæd͡ʒəneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Verb

paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)

1. (transitive) To number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
   • 2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 38:

     Each table is now paginated. That makes it straightforward if you wish to print a few pages of a long table by entering the page numbers required into the printer file.

2. (transitive) To divide (a continuous stream of text) into pages.
   • 2016, Jefferson D. Pooley, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy‎^[1], volume 4, page 943:

     Word-processing applications are designed to automatically paginate a continuous flow of text, and this require additional capabilities such as page breaks and image-positioning for some control over page layout. However, this makes tasks such as laying out a double- page magazine spread very difficult.

3. (transitive, computing) To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.

Related terms

• pagination

Translations

to number the pages of a book or other document

• Bulgarian: номерирам (nomeriram)
• Finnish: sivuttaa (fi)
• French: paginer (fr)
• Galician: paxinar (gl)
• German: paginieren (de)
• Hungarian: lapszámoz (hu), oldalszámoz, paginál, megszámozza a lapokat, lapszámozással ellát, oldalakat számoz
• Interlingua: paginar
• Maori: whakawhārangi
• Polish: paginować (pl)
• Portuguese: paginar (pt)
• Swedish: paginera (sv)

References

• “paginate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

paginate f

1. plural of paginata

Etymology 2

Verb

paginate

1. inflection of paginare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 3

Participle

paginate f pl

1. feminine plural of paginato

Anagrams

• piagante

Latin

Adjective

pāgināte

1. vocative masculine singular of pāginātus

Spanish

Verb

paginate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of paginar combined with te