texo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *teksō, perhaps from either Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or from *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (“to beget, produce”), or from *tek- (“to weave”), which may or may not be the same root.[1] Cognates include Armenian թեքել (tʿekʿel, “to bend”) and German Docht (“wick”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtek.soː/, [ˈt̪ɛks̠oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtek.so/, [ˈt̪ɛkso]
Verb
texō (present infinitive texere, perfect active texuī, supine textum); third conjugation
- I weave, knit.
- I plait, intertwine.
Conjugation
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: tsas, tsãseari
- Asturian: texer
- Catalan: teixir
- Friulian: tiessi
- Galician: tecer
- Italian: tessere
- Occitan: téisser
- Old French: tistre, tissir
- French: tître, tisser
- Piedmontese: tesse
- Portuguese: tecer
- Romanian: țese, țesere
- Romansch: taisser, teisser, tesser
- Sardinian: tèssere, tèssiri
- Sicilian: tèssiri
- Spanish: tejer
- Venetian: tèsar
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “Texō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “texo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “texo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- texo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- texo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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