textual

• textuall (obsolete)

From Middle English textewell, textueel, textuel, textuele, tixtuel (“learned in texts, bookish”), possibly from Latin textuālis; also compare Middle French textuele; or perhaps a coinage by Chaucer from Latin textus and Middle English -el.^[1] English spelling conformed to Latin from late 15c.^[2] By surface analysis, text +‎ -ual.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛks.tju.əl/, /ˈtɛks.tʃu.əl/, /ˈtɛks.tʃəl/

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textual (comparative more textual, superlative most textual)

1. Of or pertaining to text.
   1. Of or pertaining to textuality.

      Coordinate terms: paratextual, peritextual, epitextual, contextual, subtextual

      • 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:

        On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.

   2. Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.

      I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.

2. Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.

• contextual
• textuary

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təks.tuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teks.tuˈal]

textual m or f (masculine and feminine plural textuals)

1. textual
2. verbatim, word-for-word

• textualment

• text

• “textual”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

textual m or f (plural textuais)

1. textual
2. verbatim, word-for-word
3. exact, precise

• textualmente

• texto

• “textual”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Medieval Latin textuālis. By surface analysis, texto +‎ -ual.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: tex‧tu‧al

textual m or f (plural textuais)

1. textual
2. exact, precise

• “textual”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from French textuel. By surface analysis, text +‎ -ual.

textual m or n (feminine singular textuală, masculine plural textuali, feminine and neuter plural textuale)

1. verbatim

• IPA^(key): /teɡsˈtwal/ [t̪eɣ̞sˈt̪wal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tex‧tual

textual m or f (masculine and feminine plural textuales)

1. exact, precise, literal
2. textual

• “textual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024