paginate

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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.

Pronunciation

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

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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

Latin

Adjective

pāgināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of pāginātus

Spanish

Verb

paginate

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