Pagination
/ˌpædʒɪˈneɪʃən/noun
The arrangement of text into numbered pages.
Did you know?Its root is the same Latin *pagin-* that gave us *page*, originally tied to the idea of a stake or row, showing how writing was literally imagined as something fixed into structure.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pak-
“to fasten, fix”
Latin
Latin
pagus
“a district, territory; originally a bounded rural area”
Latin
Latin
pāgīna
“a page of writing; a sheet or tablet”
Medieval Latin
Latin
paginationem
“the act of numbering or arranging pages”
Early Modern English
English
pagination
“the numbering and arrangement of pages”