Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
PAGE . (I) A See also:term used of a boy, lad or See also:young male See also:person in various capacities, positions or offices . The See also:etymology is doubtful; the word is See also:common to the Romanic See also:languages; cf . O . Fr. and Span. page, See also:Port. pagem, Ital. paggio . The Med . See also:Lat. pagius has been commonly referred to Gr. iraubiov, diminutive of irais, boy, but the connexion is extremely doubtful . Others refer the word to the pueri paedagogiani, young slaves trained to become paedagogi (Gr. iraebaymyoi), or tutors to young boys attending school . Under the See also:empire, See also:numbers of such youths were attached to the imperial See also:household for the purposes of ceremonial attendance on See also:state occasions, thus occupying much the same position as that of the pages of a royal or See also:noble household in See also:medieval and See also:modern times . In fact the term paedagogiani became See also:equivalent to pueri honorarii, qui in palatio ministerio principis militabant (so Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v.) . See also:Littre refers pagius to pagensis, i.e. rustic, belonging to the See also:country districts (pagus), and adduces from this the fact that the pagii were not necessarily boys or youths; and quotes from See also:Claude See also:Fauchet (153o-16o1) the statement (See also:Lib . I .
Orig. milit. cap. i.) that up to the See also:time of
See also:
|
|
|
[back] NICOLO PAGANINI (1784-1840) |
[next] THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853- ) |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.