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English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-European *-sti Proto-Indo-European *téksti Proto-Indo-European *-tus English text 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.
Pronunciation
Noun
text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- Antonym: binary
- Coordinate term: plain text
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- Synonyms: topic, theme
- (writing, printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- Synonym: text hand
German text
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Translations
a written passage
- Afrikaans: teks (af)
- Albanian: tekst (sq) m
- Arabic: نَصّ (ar) m (naṣṣ), مَتْن m (matn)
- Armenian: տեքստ (hy) (tekʻst)
- Azerbaijani: mətn (az)
- Belarusian: тэкст m (tekst)
- Bengali: পাঠ (bn) (paṭh)
- Bulgarian: текст (bg) m (tekst)
- Burmese: စာသား (my) (casa:), စာကိုယ် (my) (cakuiy)
- Catalan: text (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 課文 / 课文 (fo3 man4)
- Dungan: кәвын (kəvɨn)
- Hokkien: 課文 / 课文 (zh-min-nan) (khò-bûn)
- Mandarin: 課文 / 课文 (zh) (kèwén)
- Wu: 課文 / 课文 (5khu-ven)
- Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲥⲁϫⲓ (metsaji)
- Czech: text (cs) m
- Danish: tekst (da), skrift (da) n
- Dutch: tekst (nl) m
- Egyptian: (zẖꜣ)
- Esperanto: teksto (eo)
- Estonian: tekst (et)
- Faroese: tekstur m
- Finnish: teksti (fi), kirjoitus (fi)
- French: texte (fr) m
- Galician: texto (gl) m
- Georgian: ტექსტი (ṭeksṭi)
- German: Text (de) m
- Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 f (bōka)
- Greek: κείμενο (el) n (keímeno)
- Ancient Greek: γραφή f (graphḗ), κείμενον n (keímenon)
- Guarani:
- Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) moñe'ẽrã
- Hebrew: טֶקְסְט (he) m (tekst)
- Hindi: पाठ (hi) m (pāṭh), टेक्स्ट (ṭeksṭ)
- Hungarian: szöveg (hu)
- Icelandic: texti (is) m
- Ido: texto (io)
- Indonesian: teks (id)
- Irish: téacs (ga) m
- Italian: testo (it) m
- Japanese: 本文 (ja) (ほんもん, honmon), 文 (ja) (ぶん, bun), テキスト (ja) (tekisuto), 記事 (ja) (きじ, kiji)
- Kazakh: мәтін (mätin)
- Khmer: អត្ថបទ (ʼatthaʼbɑt), ខ្វាម (km) (khvaam), គ្វាម (km) (kviəm)
- Korean: 텍스트 (ko) (tekseuteu), 본문(本文) (ko) (bonmun)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: tekst (ku), metin (ku)
- Kyrgyz: текст (ky) (tekst)
- Lao: ຂໍ້ຄວາມ (khǭ khuām), ບົດຄວາມ (bot khuām)
- Latin: scrīptum (la) n, textus (la) m
- Latvian: teksts m
- Lithuanian: tekstas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Text (lb)
- Macedonian: текст (mk) m (tekst)
- Malay: teks (ms)
- Malayalam: പാഠം (ml) (pāṭhaṁ)
- Manx: teks m
- Māori: kuputuhi
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: текст (mn) (tekst), сэдэв (mn) (sedev)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tekst (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: tekst m or f
- Pashto: متن m (matən), نوشته (ps) f (naweštá)
- Persian:
- Dari: مَتْن (matn), نَوِشْتَه (nawišta)
- Iranian Persian: مَتْن (matn), نِوِشْتِه (nevešte)
- Polish: tekst (pl) m
- Portuguese: texto (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਪਾਠ (pāṭh)
- Romanian: text (ro) n
- Russian: текст (ru) m (tekst)
- Sanskrit: पाठ (sa) m (pāṭha)
- Scottish Gaelic: teacsa m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: те̏кст m, шти̑во n
- Latin: tȅkst (sh) m, štȋvo (sh) n
- Slovak: text m
- Slovene: besedilo (sl) n, tekst m
- Spanish: texto (es) m
- Swahili: nakala (sw)
- Swedish: text (sv)
- Tagalog: lamandiwa, teksto
- Tajik: матн (tg) (matn), навишта (tg) (navišta)
- Tarantino: teste m
- Tatar: текст (tekst)
- Telugu: పాఠము (te) (pāṭhamu)
- Thai: ข้อความ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam)
- Tibetan: ཡིག་གཞི (yig gzhi), མདོ (mdo)
- Turkish: metin (tr)
- Turkmen: tekst
- Ukrainian: текст (uk) m (tekst)
- Urdu: مَتْن m (matn), ٹِکْسْٹ (ṭiksṭ), ٹیکْسْٹ (ur) (ṭeksṭ), نَوِشْتَہ m (naviśta)
- Uyghur: تېكىست (tëkist)
- Uzbek: matn (uz), tekst (uz)
- Vietnamese: văn bản (vi) (文本)
- Volapük: vödem (vo)
- Walloon: tecse (wa) m
- Welsh: testun (cy) m
- Yakut: тиэкис (tiekis)
- Yiddish: טעקסט m (tekst)
- Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib
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a book, tome or other set of writings a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones — see also text message
- Afrikaans: SMS (af)
- Arabic: رِسَالَة f (risāla), (colloquial) مِيسِيج m (mīsij), إِس إِم إِس m (ʔes ʔem ʔes), رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس f (risālat ʔes ʔem ʔes)
- Bengali: এসএমএস (bn) (eśoemoes)
- Catalan: missatge de text, or simply missatge (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 短信 (zh) (duǎnxìn), 簡訊 / 简讯 (zh) (jiǎnxùn)
- Czech: SMS (cs) f, esemeska (cs) f, textovka f
- Danish: sms (da) c
- Dutch: sms (nl) m
- Faroese: SMS-boð n pl
- Finnish: tekstiviesti (fi)
- French: texto (fr) m, SMS (fr) m
- Georgian: ტექსტური შეტყობინება (ṭeksṭuri šeṭq̇obineba), შეტყობინება (šeṭq̇obineba), ესემესი (esemesi), მესიჯი (mesiǯi)
- German: SMS (de) f
- Greek: μήνυμα (el) n (mínyma)
- Hebrew: SMS (he) m
- Irish: téacs (ga) m, teachtaireacht f
- Italian: sms (it) m, messaggio (it)
- Japanese: 伝言 (ja) (でんごん, dengon), メッセージ (ja) (messēji), 短信 (ja) (たんしん, tanshin)
- Korean: 메시지 (ko) (mesiji), 소식(消息) (ko) (sosik)
- Māori: karere ā-waea, karere kuputuhi
- Polish: wiadomość (pl) f, sms (pl) m, esemes (pl) m
- Portuguese: torpedo (pt) m, mensagem (pt) f
- Russian: сообще́ние (ru) n (soobščénije), СМС (ru) m (SMS), эс-эм-э́с m (es-em-és), (colloquial) эсэмэ́ска (ru) f (esɛmɛ́ska)
- Scottish Gaelic: teacsa m
- Spanish: texto (es) m
- Swedish: sms (sv)
- Thai: ข้อความสั้น, ข้อความ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam)
- Tibetan: འཕྲིན་ཐུང ('phrin thung)
- Volapük: vödanunil
- Welsh: neges destun (cy)
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Verb
text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) text)
- (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
Just text me when you get here. I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
Have you been texting all afternoon?
- (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1:I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music[1] (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.
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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.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “text”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”). First attested in the 14th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
text m (plural texts or textos)
- text
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Czech
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-European *-sti Proto-Indo-European *téksti Proto-Indo-European *-tus Czech text Derived from Latin textus.
Pronunciation
Noun
text m inan
- text
- text knihy ― the text of the book
- text písně ― lyrics
- text smlouvy ― the text of the contract
Declension
Declension of text (hard masculine inanimate)
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Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Persian تخت (taxt).
Noun
text m
- throne
- bed
- wood, tree
Related terms
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)
- text
References
Swedish
Etymology
Derived from Latin textus.
Pronunciation
Noun
text c
- text
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “text”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- text in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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