Etymology

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Today it means: A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences. Full definition →

Middle English text ← Old French texte ← New Latin textus
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*tek-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*téksti
  3. Proto-Italic*teksō
  4. Latintexō
  5. New Latintextus
  6. Old Frenchtexte
  7. Middle Englishtext
  8. English todaytext

From Middle English text, from Old French texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“to weave”). Cognate to texture.

Words from the same roots

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