Multipage

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Describing a document or publication consisting of multiple separate pages; referring to content distributed over several sheets; relating to a format that spans more than one page
2. Pertaining to materials composed of several pages; involving information spread across multiple leaflets; concerning a layout that includes various distinct sheets
3. Characteristic of printed or digital works made up of numerous pages; involving a sequence of pages forming a complete set; connected to formats with multiple separate pages assembled together

Etymology: "Multipage" is a plain compound: the prefix "multi-", from Latin "multus" meaning "many", joined to "page". The Latin "multus" came into English through the combining form "multi-", which is used freely in modern coinages, so the word is a straightforward assembly of two existing parts rather than a historical borrowing in its own right. The second element traces a longer road. "Page" goes back to Latin "pagina", meaning a single side of a written sheet, and it reached English by way of Middle French "page". Its root is linked to the Latin verb "pangere", "to fasten", a reminder that the earliest pages were literally sheets fixed together in a book. Because the word is built from familiar parts, its meaning follows directly from them: "many pages", applied to documents, layouts, or information spread across several sheets.

Synonyms: multi-page, many-page, multi-sheet

Antonyms: single-page, one-page