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means The materials and design wrapped around a product to protect it, display it, and persuade you before you've even used what's inside.

from From 'pack,' tracing back to Germanic and Dutch roots meaning to bundle things together for carrying or trade — think medieval merchants tying goods into a 'pack' for a journey. The '-age' suffix (from French/Latin, denoting an action or result) turned the verb into the whole apparatus of wrapping. 'Packaging' as a distinct industry-and-marketing term is a 20th-century development, growing alongside mass retail — once goods stopped being measured out by a shopkeeper and started sitting pre-wrapped on shelves, the wrapping itself had to start doing the selling.