textura Latin · revision 33445

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la texō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tɛkˈstuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tekˈstuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''textūra''' ''f'' (genitive textūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|texō|-tūra|t1=to weave]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces the verb to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]], cognate with [[sa|तक्षति|tr=tákṣati|t=to hammer, form, fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short, Georges and Conte cite Plautus for a spider's web;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) de Vaan and Köbler date it from Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the art or process of weaving, as in Propertius' “Coan weaving of Minerva”,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and a web, as of spiders in Seneca.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) From this came a framework or structure: Lucan uses it of the frame of the ribs,^(OLD 2012) and Lucretius uses it of the fine atomic structure of the mind, ''quam tenuī cōnstet textūrā'', “of how fine a texture it is made”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate uses it of woven work in Exodus, and Prudentius of a construction.^(Georges 1913) In Medieval Latin it was also the plaiting of a crown and the putting together of words, a composition;^(DMLBS) Alcuin applies it to a written work.^(DMLBS) English took ''texture'' in the early 15th century in the sense “network, structure”, first in anatomy.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a spider's web.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the structure of the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of weaving.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a web.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 799 – Alcuin uses it of a literary composition.^(DMLBS)

+ * early 15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|texture]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The art or process of [[m|en|weaving]]; a way of weaving.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # A [[m|en|web]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A [[m|en|framework]], structure.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(philosophy)'' The atomic make-up of a thing, its [[m|en|texture]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A putting together of words, a [[m|en|composition]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[texō]]

+ * [[textus]]

+ * [[textilis]]

+ * [[tēla]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}