English
texture
Texture comes from Latin textūra ‘a weaving, web, texture, structure’, and goes back to texō ‘to weave, knit’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtexō‘to weave, knit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtextūra‘a weaving, web, texture, structure’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600texture
- Englishearliest quotation 1650same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtexō‘to weave, knit’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEtextūra‘a weaving, web, texture, structure’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600texture
- Englishearliest quotation 1650same form
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- ‘to sire, beget’
through Latin texō ‘to weave, knit’
Today it means
noun The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin texō / texture