Etymology

textile

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Today it means: Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven. Full definition →

Latin textile
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromtextile
  2. English todaytextile

Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

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