textile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.staɪl/

  • Audio (California):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈtek.stɑel/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈtek.staɪl/, [ˈtek.stɑe̯l]
• Rhymes: -ɛkstaɪl

Noun

textile (plural textiles)

2. (usually in the plural) Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.

   Synonyms: fabric, material (fabric sense); see also Thesaurus:fabric

   Hypernyms: material (matter sense), matter, substance, stuff (matter sense)

   Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)

3. (naturism) A non-nudist.

   Antonyms: nudist, naturist

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Derived terms

• e-textile
• mycotextile
• nanotextile
• nontextile
• textile art
• textile banana
• textile cone
• textilelike
• textilism
• textilist
• textiloma

Translations

cloth produced from fabric

• Bulgarian: плат (bg) m (plat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紡織 / 纺织 (zh) (fǎngzhī), 紡織品 / 纺织品 (zh) (fǎngzhīpǐn)

• Danish: tekstil n
• Dutch: textiel (nl) n
• Esperanto: teksajo
• Finnish: tekstiili (fi), kude (fi), kangas (fi)
• French: textile (fr)
• Galician: téxtil m
• Georgian: ტექსტილი (ṭeksṭili)
• German: Textilie (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὕφασμα n (húphasma)

• Hungarian: szövet (hu)
• Icelandic: textíll m
• Italian: tessuti (it) m pl
• Japanese: 織物 (ja) (おりもの, orimono), テクスタイル (tekusutairu)
• Latin: textilus m
• Māori: pūeru
• Nivkh: пос (pos)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tekstil

  Nynorsk: tekstil

• Plautdietsch: Zeich n
• Polish: włókienniczy (pl), materiały włokiennicze m pl, tekstylia f pl
• Portuguese: têxtil (pt) m, tecido (pt) m
• Russian: тексти́ль (ru) m (tekstílʹ), ткань (ru) f (tkanʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: tekstil (sh) m
• Spanish: textil (es) m
• Swedish: textilier (sv) n pl
• Welsh: tecstil m

non-nudist

• French: textile (fr) m or f
• Russian: тексти́льщик (ru) m (tekstílʹščik), тексти́льщица (ru) f (tekstílʹščica), тексти́льник (ru) m (tekstílʹnik), тексти́льница f (tekstílʹnica)

Adjective

textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)

1. (naturism) Clothing compulsive.

   a textile beach

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “naturism”): clothing optional, nude, naturist

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin textile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk.stil/

• Audio; “le textile”:

  (file)

Adjective

textile (plural textiles)

1. able to be made into textiles; fibrous [from 1752]
2. (relational) textile [from 1864]
   • 1974, Jean Pierre Fruit, Vexin normand ou Vexin parisien?: Contribution à l'étude géographique de l'espace rural, Presse Universitaires de France, page 158:

     Les produits viennent surtout naturellement des grandes régions de l'industrie textile : Mulhouse pour les tissus de coton et la mercerie, le Nord pour les lainages, Troyes pour la bonneterie.

     The products mainly come naturally from the great regions of the textile industry: Mulhouse for cotton fabrics and mercerie, the North [of France] for woollens, Troyes for hosiery.

Noun

textile m (plural textiles)

1. textile, fabric [from 1872]
2. (naturism) textile, non-nudist

Descendants

• → Turkish: tekstil

Further reading

• “textile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *tek-

Proto-Indo-European *-sti

Proto-Indo-European *téksti

Proto-Italic *teksō

Latin texō

Latin textus

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin textilisder.

Latin textile

From textilis (“woven”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛk.stɪ.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛk.sti.le]

Noun

textile n (genitive textilis); third declension

1. fabric, textile, canvas, piece of cloth
   • 52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus 2.45:

     Ligneum autem quod ⟨quis⟩que voluerit uno e ligno ⟨di⟩cato, itemque lapideum, in delubris communibus, textile ne operosius quam mulieris opus menstruum.

     • 1870 translation by Charles Duke Yonge

       With regard to wood, if any one wishes to dedicate a statue of wood to a divinity, let it be formed from a single tree. The same remark applies to the statues of stone in common temples. As to the airy woven work, it should not be more elaborate than a woman can make it in a month.

       (literally, “And a wooden one that anyone wishes made from a single consecrated tree, and also stone one, in common temples, fabric one, not more laborious than a woman's month-long work.”)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	textile	textilia
genitive	textilis	textilium
dative	textilī	textilibus
accusative	textile	textilia
ablative	textilī	textilibus
vocative	textile	textilia

Related terms

• texō
• textilis
• textor
• textōrius
• textrīnus
• textrīx
• textum
• textus

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Catalan: tèxtil
• Danish: tekstil
• Dutch: textiel
• English: textile
• French: textile
  • → Turkish: tekstil
• German: Textil, Textilie
• Latvian: tekstils
• Norwegian Bokmål: tekstil
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tekstil
• Portuguese: têxtil
• Romanian: textil
• Russian: текстиль (tekstilʹ)
• Spanish: textil
• Swedish: textil

Adjective

textile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of textilis