textura

See also: textură

English

Noun

textura (uncountable)

1. (typography) A calligraphic form of black letter.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təksˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [teksˈtu.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

textura f (plural textures)

1. texture

Related terms

• text

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin textūra.

Noun

textura f (plural texturas)

1. texture

Further reading

• “textura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “textura”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

Latin

Etymology

From texō +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛkˈstuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tekˈstuː.ra]

Noun

textūra f (genitive textūrae); first declension

1. weaving
2. web
3. texture

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	textūra	textūrae
genitive	textūrae	textūrārum
dative	textūrae	textūrīs
accusative	textūram	textūrās
ablative	textūrā	textūrīs
vocative	textūra	textūrae

Descendants

• Catalan: textura
• Danish: tekstur
• English: texture
• French: texture
• German: Textur
• Norwegian Bokmål: tekstur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tekstur
• Portuguese: textura
• Romanian: textură
• Spanish: textura
• Swedish: textur

References

• “textura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “textura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “textura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tesˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tesˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /teʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tesˈtu.ɾa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐjʃˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐjʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tejʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /tejʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /teʃˈtu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: tex‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin textūra.

Noun

textura f (plural texturas)

1. texture
   1. act or effect of weaving
   2. tissue
   3. shape, arrangement and distribution of the parts of a whole; texture; organization
   4. arrangement of molecules in homogeneous bodies
   5. appearance
   6. consistency
   7. (geology) set of characteristics of shape, size and arrangement of the mineralogical elements that make up a rock or soil
   8. (linguistics) organization of lexical and grammatical units that underlie the cohesion of a verbal text

Related terms

• texto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

textura

1. inflection of texturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “textura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “textura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “textura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English texture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teks.tuˈra/

Verb

a textura (third-person singular present texturează, past participle texturat) 1st conjugation

1. to texture

Conjugation

    conjugation of textura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a textura
gerund			texturând
past participle			texturat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	texturez	texturezi	texturează	texturăm	texturați	texturează
	imperfect	texturam	texturai	textura	texturam	texturați	texturau
	simple perfect	texturai	texturași	textură	texturarăm	texturarăți	texturară
	pluperfect	texturasem	texturaseși	texturase	texturaserăm	texturaserăți	texturaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să texturez	să texturezi	să textureze	să texturăm	să texturați	să textureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		texturează			texturați
	negative		nu textura			nu texturați

Further reading

• “textura”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teɡsˈtuɾa/ [t̪eɣ̞sˈt̪u.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): /tesˈtuɾa/ [t̪esˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tex‧tu‧ra

Noun

textura f (plural texturas)

1. texture

Related terms

• texto

Further reading

• “textura”, 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