A 'page' was originally a vine trellis — Romans saw neat rows of text resembling rows of vines on a frame.
One side of a leaf of a book, manuscript, or other collection of bound sheets, or the material written or printed on it.
From Latin 'pāgina,' meaning 'a column of writing, a written page,' derived from the verb 'pangere' meaning 'to fasten, to fix, to compose in writing.' The underlying metaphor is agricultural: a 'pāgina' was originally a trellis or frame to which vines were fastened, and the neat columns of a Roman manuscript resembled rows of vines fixed to a frame. The word thus records the moment when Romans looked at a column of text and
The word 'page' comes from Latin 'pāgina,' which originally meant a trellis — the frame to which Roman farmers fastened their grapevines in orderly rows. When Romans began writing in neat columns on papyrus scrolls, they saw a resemblance to the orderly rows of a vineyard trellis, and 'pāgina' jumped from agriculture to literature. Every page you read is, etymologically, a tiny vineyard.