Noun: text
Sample Sentences
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In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text [2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:]
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German text
Nouns inflected like text
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-seti
4. Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti
5. Proto-Italic *teksō?
6. Latin texō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
8. Proto-Italic *-tus
9. Latin -tus
10. New Latin textusbor.
11. Old French textebor.
12. Middle English text
13. English text
14. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
text', Latin Nouns '
textus'.
Verbs referencing "text"
Irish Nouns
téacs.