Spanish word

página

Pronunciation

IPA/ˈpaxina/

Meaning

  • feminine nounpage

Example

Abre la página que te envié.

Open the page that I sent you.

Illustration for página (page)

More examples

¿Has visto la página principal del sitio?

Have you seen the site's main page?

Core concept

One side of a book or notebook showing text and images.

Common phrases

  • abrir la página

    open the page

  • cerrar la página

    close the page

  • la página web

    the web page

Similar words

hoja: A whole sheet of paper used as a leaf in a book or notebook, possibly printed on both sides.
folio: A single sheet counted as a unit for numbering or referencing pages in a book or document.

Definition in Spanish

Hoja o cara de un libro, cuaderno o documento donde aparece texto o imágenes; por extensión, cada unidad de contenido que se muestra en pantalla también se llama página.

Word origin

From Latin pagina (from pangere 'to fasten'), originally 'a planted row', the word later came to mean the surface of a book and then a unit of content on a screen.

Usage tips

  • Página refers to a single printed or digital side while hoja means the whole sheet, so a double-sided leaf has two páginas but one hoja.

Other meanings

  • web pagenoun

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