text

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕkst, IPA^(key): /tɛkst/
• Rhymes: -ɛkst
• Hyphenation: text

Noun

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)

1. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
2. A book, tome or other set of writings.
3. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.

   Synonym: text message

4. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.

   Antonym: binary

   Coordinate term: plain text

5. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
6. (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.

   Synonyms: topic, theme

7. (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.

   Synonym: text hand

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Derived terms

Translations

Verb

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) text)

1. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.

   Synonyms: message, (UK) SMS

2. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.

3. (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Welsh: tecstio

Translations

Further reading

• Text in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “text”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• text in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “text”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”). First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtekst]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɛkst]

Noun

text m (plural texts or textos)

1. text

Derived terms

• hipertext
• subtext
• textar

Related terms

• textual

References

Further reading

• “text” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “text” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “text” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛkst]

Noun

text m inan

1. text

   text knihy ― the text of the book

   text písně ― lyrics

   text smlouvy ― the text of the contract

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “text”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “text”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian تخت (taxt).

Noun

text m

1. throne
2. bed
3. wood, tree

Related terms

• textî
• textîn
• textînî

References

• Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French texte, Latin textus.

Pronunciation

Noun

text n (plural texte)

1. text

References

• text in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

text c

1. text

Declension