# textura
## English
### Noun

textura (uncountable)
* (typography) A calligraphic form of black letter.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [təksˈtu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [teksˈtu.ɾa]

### Noun

textura f (plural textures)
* texture

#### Related terms

* text

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin textūra.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

textura f (plural texturas)
* 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 (2014).

## Latin
### Etymology

From textus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /tekˈstuː.ra/, [t̪ɛkˈs̠t̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /tekˈstu.ra/, [t̪ekˈst̪uːrä]

### Noun

textūra f (genitive textūrae); first declension
* weaving
* web
* texture

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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: /tesˈtu.ɾɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /tesˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /teʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /tesˈtu.ɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐjʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /tɐjʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /tejʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Central Portugal) IPA: /tejʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /teʃˈtu.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: tex‧tu‧ra

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin textūra.

#### Noun

textura f (plural texturas)
* texture
** act or effect of weaving
** tissue
** shape, arrangement and distribution of the parts of a whole; texture; organization
** arrangement of molecules in homogeneous bodies
** appearance
** consistency
** (geology) set of characteristics of shape, size and arrangement of the mineralogical elements that make up a rock or soil
** (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
* inflection of texturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “textura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua 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: /teks.tuˈra/

### Verb

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

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* textura in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textūra.

### Noun

textura f (plural texturas)
* 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], 2024 December 10