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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-seti Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti Proto-Italic *teksō? Latin texō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus New Latin textusbor. Old French textebor. Middle English text 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 English texture.

238 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: teks — a written passage
• Albanian: tekst — a written passage
• Arabic: نَصّ (naṣṣ) — a written passage
• Arabic: مَتْن (matn) — a written passage
• Armenian: տեքստ (tekʻst) — a written passage
• Azerbaijani: mətn — a written passage
• Belarusian: тэкст (tekst) — a written passage
• Bengali: পাঠ (paṭh) — a written passage
• Bulgarian: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Burmese: စာသား (casa:) — a written passage
• Burmese: စာကိုယ် (cakuiy) — a written passage
• Catalan: text — a written passage
• Chinese Cantonese: 課文 /课文 (fo3 man4) — a written passage
• Chinese: кәвын (kəvɨn) — a written passage
• Chinese: 課文 /课文 (zh-min-nan) — a written passage
• Chinese Mandarin: 課文 /课文 (kèwén) — a written passage
• Wu Chinese: 課文 /课文 (5khu-ven) — a written passage
• Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲥⲁϫⲓ (metsaji) — a written passage
• Czech: text — a written passage
• Danish: tekst — a written passage
• Danish: skrift — a written passage
• Dutch: tekst — a written passage
• Egyptian: Y3-Y1V (zẖꜣ) — a written passage
• Esperanto: teksto — a written passage
• Estonian: tekst — a written passage
• Faroese: tekstur — a written passage
• Finnish: teksti — a written passage
• Finnish: kirjoitus — a written passage
• French: texte — a written passage
• Galician: texto — a written passage
• Georgian: ტექსტი (ṭeksṭi) — a written passage
• German: Text — a written passage
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka) — a written passage
• Greek: κείμενο (keímeno) — a written passage
• Ancient Greek: γραφή (graphḗ) — a written passage
• Ancient Greek: κείμενον (keímenon) — a written passage
• Hebrew: טֶקְסְט (tekst) — a written passage
• Hindi: पाठ (pāṭh) — a written passage
• Hindi: टेक्स्ट (ṭeksṭ) — a written passage
• Hungarian: szöveg — a written passage
• Icelandic: texti — a written passage
• Ido: texto — a written passage
• Indonesian: teks — a written passage
• Irish: téacs — a written passage
• Italian: testo — a written passage
• Japanese: 本文 (honmon) — a written passage
• Japanese: 文 (bun) — a written passage
• Japanese: テキスト (tekisuto) — a written passage
• Japanese: 記事 (kiji) — a written passage
• Kazakh: мәтін (mätın) — a written passage
• Khmer: អត្ថបទ (ʼatthaʼbɑt) — a written passage
• Khmer: ខ្វាម (khvaam) — a written passage
• Khmer: គ្វាម (kviəm) — a written passage
• Korean: 텍스트 (tekseuteu) — a written passage
• Korean: 본문 (bonmun) — a written passage
• Northern Kurdish: tekst — a written passage
• Northern Kurdish: metin — a written passage
• Kyrgyz: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Lao: ຂໍ້ຄວາມ (khǭ khuām) — a written passage
• Lao: ບົດຄວາມ (bot khuām) — a written passage
• Latin: scriptum — a written passage
• Latin: textus — a written passage
• Latvian: teksts — a written passage
• Lithuanian: tekstas — a written passage
• Luxembourgish: Text — a written passage
• Macedonian: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Malay: teks — a written passage
• Malayalam: പാഠം (pāṭhaṁ) — a written passage
• Manx: teks — a written passage
• Māori: kuputuhi — a written passage
• Mongolian: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Mongolian: сэдэв (sedev) — a written passage
• Norwegian Bokmål: tekst — a written passage
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tekst — a written passage
• Pashto: متن (matən) — a written passage
• Pashto: نوشته (naweštá) — a written passage
• Dari: مَتْن (matn) — a written passage
• Dari: نَوِشْتَه (nawišta) — a written passage
• Iranian Persian: مَتْن (matn) — a written passage
• Iranian Persian: نِوِشْتِه (nevešte) — a written passage
• Polish: tekst — a written passage
• Portuguese: texto — a written passage
• Punjabi: ਪਾਠ (pāṭh) — a written passage
• Romanian: text — a written passage
• Russian: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Sanskrit: पाठ (pāṭha) — a written passage
• Scottish Gaelic: teacsa — a written passage
• Serbo-Croatian: те̏кст — a written passage
• Serbo-Croatian: шти̑во — a written passage
• Serbo-Croatian: tȅkst — a written passage
• Serbo-Croatian: štȋvo — a written passage
• Slovak: text — a written passage
• Slovene: besedilo — a written passage
• Slovene: tekst — a written passage
• Spanish: texto — a written passage
• Swahili: nakala — a written passage
• Swedish: text — a written passage
• Tagalog: lamandiwa — a written passage
• Tagalog: teksto — a written passage
• Tajik: матн (matn) — a written passage
• Tajik: навишта (navišta) — a written passage
• Tarantino: teste — a written passage
• Tatar: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Telugu: పాఠము (pāṭhamu) — a written passage
• Thai: ข้อความ (kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam) — a written passage
• Tibetan: ཡིག་གཞི (yig gzhi) — a written passage
• Tibetan: མདོ (mdo) — a written passage
• Turkish: metin — a written passage
• Turkmen: tekst — a written passage
• Ukrainian: текст (tekst) — a written passage
• Urdu: مَتْن (matn) — a written passage
• Urdu: ٹِکْسْٹ (ṭiksṭ) — a written passage
• Urdu: ٹیکْسْٹ (ṭeksṭ) — a written passage
• Urdu: نَوِشْتَہ (naviśta) — a written passage
• Uyghur: تېكىست (tëkist) — a written passage
• Uzbek: matn — a written passage
• Uzbek: tekst — a written passage
• Vietnamese: văn bản — a written passage
• Volapük: vödem — a written passage
• Walloon: tecse — a written passage
• Welsh: testun — a written passage
• Yakut: тиэкис (tiekis) — a written passage
• Yiddish: טעקסט (tekst) — a written passage
• Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib — a written passage
• Afrikaans: teks — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Catalan: text — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Dutch: tekst — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Esperanto: teksto — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Finnish: teksti — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Finnish: kirjoitus — a book, tome or other set of writings
• French: texte — a book, tome or other set of writings
• German: Text — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Haitian Creole: tèks — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Hebrew: טֶקסט (tekst) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Indonesian: teks — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Irish: téacs — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Italian: testo — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Kazakh: мәтін (mätın) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Latin: scriptum — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Neapolitan: tiestu — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Persian: نوشتار (neveštār) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Persian: کتاب (ketāb) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Portuguese: texto — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Russian: текст (tekst) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Scottish Gaelic: teacsa — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Spanish: texto — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Thai: ตํารา (dtam-raa) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Tibetan: དེབ (deb) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Tibetan: ཡིག་དེབ (yig deb) — a book, tome or other set of writings
• Afrikaans: SMS — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Arabic: رِسَالَة (risāla) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Arabic: مِيسِيج (mīsij) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Arabic: إِس إِم إِس (ʔes ʔem ʔes) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Arabic: رِسَالَة إِس إِم إِس (risālat ʔes ʔem ʔes) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Bengali: এসএমএস (eśoemoes) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Catalan: missatge de text — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Catalan: or simply missatge — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Chinese Mandarin: 短信 (duǎnxìn) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡訊 /简讯 (jiǎnxùn) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Czech: SMS — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Czech: esemeska — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Czech: textovka — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Danish: sms — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Dutch: sms — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Faroese: SMS-boð — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Finnish: tekstiviesti — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• French: texto — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• French: SMS — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Georgian: ტექსტური შეტყობინება (ṭeksṭuri šeṭq̇obineba) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Georgian: შეტყობინება (šeṭq̇obineba) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Georgian: ესემესი (esemesi) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Georgian: მესიჯი (mesiǯi) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• German: SMS — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Greek: μήνυμα (mínyma) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Hebrew: SMS — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Irish: téacs — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Irish: teachtaireacht — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Italian: sms — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Italian: messaggio — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Japanese: 伝言 (dengon) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Japanese: メッセージ (messēji) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Japanese: 短信 (tanshin) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Korean: 메시지 (mesiji) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Korean: 소식 (sosik) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Māori: karere ā-waea — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Māori: karere kuputuhi — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Polish: wiadomość — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Polish: sms — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Polish: esemes — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Portuguese: torpedo — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Portuguese: mensagem — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Russian: СМС (SMS) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Russian: эс-эм-э́с (es-em-és) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Russian: эсэмэ́ска (esɛmɛ́ska) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Scottish Gaelic: teacsa — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Spanish: texto — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Swedish: sms — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Thai: ข้อความสั้น — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Thai: ข้อความ (kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Tibetan: འཕྲིན་ཐུང ('phrin thung) — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Volapük: vödanunil — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Welsh: neges destun — a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones
• Afrikaans: SMS — to send a text message to
• Bengali: এসএমএস করা (eśoemoes kora) — to send a text message to
• Catalan: enviar un missatge — to send a text message to
• Catalan: escriure — to send a text message to
• Catalan: textar — to send a text message to
• Czech: písnout — to send a text message to
• Dutch: sms'en — to send a text message to
• Finnish: tekstata — to send a text message to
• French: textoter — to send a text message to
• German: simsen — to send a text message to
• Irish: téacsáil — to send a text message to
• Irish: téacs a chur — to send a text message to
• Irish: téacs a sheoladh — to send a text message to
• Italian: messaggiare — to send a text message to
• Japanese: メッセージを送る (messēji o okuru) — to send a text message to
• Māori: patowaea — to send a text message to
• Norman: texter — to send a text message to
• Polish: pisać — to send a text message to
• Russian: смснуть (smsnut') — to send a text message to
• Spanish: textear — to send a text message to
• Swedish: messa — to send a text message to
• Swedish: sms:a — to send a text message to
• Turkish: mesaj atmak — to send a text message to
• Turkish: yazmak — to send a text message to
• Vietnamese: nhắn tin — to send a text message to
• Welsh: tecstio — to send a text message to
• Finnish: tekstailla — to send and receive SMSs
• Irish: téacsáil — to send and receive SMSs
• Italian: messaggiare — to send and receive SMSs
• Polish: esemesować — to send and receive SMSs
• Polish: SMS-ować — to send and receive SMSs
• Polish: tekstować — to send and receive SMSs
• Spanish: textear — to send and receive SMSs
• Finnish: tekstata — to write in majuscule