English
textiquette
Blend of text + etiquette.
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
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- ‘to be sharp, to stab, to goad, to puncture’
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Old French atachier ‘to attach’
Middle French estacher ‘to stick’
Middle French estiquette ‘ticket, memorandum’
French étiquette ‘property, a little piece of paper, or a mark…’
English etiquette
Today it means
noun Etiquette regarding texting.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “textiquette”. 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 / textiquette