pageant
English
/ˈpædʒənt/
noun
Definitions
- An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
- A spectacular ceremony.
- (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pagina, pāgina (page, strip of papyrus fastened to others, page of a book, sheet, leaf, written page).
Origin
Latin
pāgina
Gloss
page, strip of papyrus fastened to others, page of a book, sheet, leaf, written page
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
葉
Emoji
📊
Timeline
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Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- goer English
- pageant-goer English
- pageanteer English
- pageanter English
- pageantitis English
- pageantlike English
- pageantry English
- pagina English
- pagina Latin
- paginalis Latin
- pāgina Latin
- pagina Italian
- pagina Dutch, Flemish
- página Spanish, Castilian
- *peh₂ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- página Portuguese
- page Old French
- pagene Old French
- pàgina Catalan, Valencian
- páxina Galician
- pagină Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pagina Occitan
- paġna Maltese
- páxina Asturian
- pagjine Friulian
- pàggina Sicilian
- pajina Venetian
- pàgina Venetian
- pàxena Venetian
- pajina Ladino
- paige Bourguignon
- pachina Aragonese