A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education.
A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
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.
Via Middle French from Latin pagina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. pagina.
From Old French page, possibly via Italian paggio, from Late Latin pagius ("servant"), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον ("boy, lad"), from παῖς; 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.
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