texo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *teksō, perhaps from either Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (to beget, produce).[1] Compare Ancient Greek τίκτω (tíktō), Hittite 𒈭𒆠𒅖𒍣 (tákkišzi, to arrange, prepare), Sanskrit ताष्टि (tā́ṣṭi), Middle High German dehsen (to break flax), Old High German tāht (wick). On the basis of Old Armenian թեքեմ (tʻekʻem, to bend; to fashion, forge), the root has alternatively been reconstructed as *tek- (to weave, fashion).[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

texō (present infinitive texere, perfect active texuī, supine textum); third conjugation

  1. to weave, knit
  2. to plait, intertwine

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: tsas, tsãseari
  • Asturian: texer
  • Catalan: teixir
  • Old Francoprovençal: *testre
    • Franco-Provençal: têtre
  • Friulian: tiessi
  • Italian: tessere
  • Occitan: téisser
  • Old French: tistre, tissir
  • Piedmontese: tesse
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: tecer
  • Romanian: țese, țesere
  • Romansch: taisser, teisser, tesser
  • Sardinian: tèssere, tèssiri
  • Sicilian: tèssiri
  • Spanish: tejer
  • Venetan: tèsar

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “texō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 619
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “2. *tek-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 619–620

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.