pagent
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pageant, pajant, pajont, pagyant, pagand, pagiaunt, pagende, pajande, pagiont, pageaunt
Etymology
From Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin pāgina (“a written page, leaf, sheet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpadʒɛn(t)/, /ˈpadʒan(t)/
Noun
pagent (plural pagentes)
- A mystery play.
- A wheeled platform for plays.
- (rare) An event, a scene.
Descendants
- English: pageant
References
- “pāǧent, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.