Kilo Lingo

/tekst/

Line drawing of text
Coloured illustration of text
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Translation

Words that are written or printed. It also means a short written message you send from a phone.

Word origin

From Latin textus, meaning something woven, later used for a piece of writing.

Origin
Latin
Root
textus
English cognates
textile, texture

Grammar

Gender
Pluraltexts

Examples

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Here "text" is a short message sent from a phone.

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Here "text" means the written words on the page.

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"Texts" is the plural, meaning more than one message.

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This word is part of lesson 27.