Etymo

texture

The surface quality or structure of something.

Played on · Day 65 · word 5 of 5

Weaving is built into the structure

How texture reached English

oldest first
  1. Latin

    texere

    ‘to weave’

  2. Latin

    textus

  3. Latin

    textura

    ‘construction, structure; literally web, structure’

  4. Middle English

    textūre

    ‘the art of weaving; in anatomy, a membrane’

  5. English

    texture

    ‘the structural character of a physical surface’

The story of texture

Latin texere, to weave, supplied the participle textus. The noun textura comes from that form and lies behind texture.

The task orders grammatical formation steps as well as the final borrowing; it does not assign invented dates.

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