English
texteme
From text + -eme.
Formed from text + -eme
Proto-Italic *teksō
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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’
Medieval Latin textus ‘text’
Old French texte
Middle English text
English text
Today it means
noun A unit of text, large enough to have intelligible meaning, that stands in relationship to other units of text.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “texteme”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / texteme