# text
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: tĕkst, IPA: /tɛkst/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛkst
* Hyphenation: text

### Noun

text (countable and uncountable, plural texts)
* A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
* A book, tome or other set of writings.
* (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
    Synonym: text message
* (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
    Antonym: binary
    Coordinate term: plain text
* A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
* (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
    Synonyms: topic, theme
* (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
    Synonym: text hand
    German text

#### Hyponyms

* alt text (alternative text)
* body text
* double text
* dummy text
* flat text
* glitch text
* hypertext
* metatext
* non-linear text
* parallel text
* plain text
* plaintext
* running text
* schizotext

#### Derived terms

* alt text
* bi-text
* body text
* church text
* clobber text
* context
* drunk text
* e-text
* flavor text
* flavour text
* here-text
* hover text
* parallel text
* predictive text
* pretext
* rich text
* sex-text
* sexting
* small text
* source text
* splash text
* stick to one's text
* subtext
* taproot text
* target text
* text adventure
* textbase
* text-based
* textbook
* text-book
* text box
* text door neighbour
* text editor
* text file
* text hook
* text hooker
* texting
* text linguistics
* text link
* text message
* text messaging
* text neck
* textonym
* text painting
* text retrieval
* text simplification
* text tennis
* text-to-speech
* text-type
* text type
* textual
* text wall
* timed text
* Ur-text
* ur-text
* visual text
* wall of text

#### Translations

Afrikaans: teks
Albanian: tekst (sq) m
Arabic: نَصّ (ar) m (naṣṣ)
Armenian: տեքստ (hy) (tekʻst)
Azerbaijani: mətn (az)
Belarusian: тэкст m (tekst)
Bengali: পাঠ (bn) (paṭh)
Bulgarian: текст (bg) m (tekst)
Burmese: စာသား (my) (casa:), စာကိုယ် (my) (cakuiy)
Catalan: text (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 課文 / 课文 (fo$^3$ man$^4$)
Dungan: кәвын (kəvɨn)
Hokkien: 課文 / 课文 (zh-min-nan) (khò-bûn)
Mandarin: 課文 / 课文 (zh) (kèwén)
Wu: 課文 / 课文 ($^5$khu-ven)
Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲥⲁϫⲓ (metsači)
Czech: text (cs) m
Danish: tekst (da), skrift (da) n
Dutch: tekst (nl) m
Egyptian: (zẖꜣ)
Esperanto: teksto (eo)
Estonian: tekst (et)
Faroese: tekstur m
Finnish: teksti (fi), kirjoitus (fi)
French: texte (fr) m
Galician: texto (gl) m
Georgian: ტექსტი (ṭeksṭi)
German: Text (de) m
Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 f (bōka)
Greek: κείμενο (el) n (keímeno)
Ancient: γραφή f (graphḗ)
Guaraní: moñe'ẽrã
Hebrew: טֶקְסְט (he) m (tekst)
Hindi: पाठ (hi) m (pāṭh), टेक्स्ट (ṭeksṭ)
Hungarian: szöveg (hu)
Icelandic: texti (is) m
Ido: texto (io)
Indonesian: teks (id)
Irish: téacs (ga) m
Italian: testo (it) m
Japanese: 本文 (ja) (ほんもん, honmon), 文 (ja) (ぶん, bun), テキスト (ja) (tekisuto), 記事 (ja) (きじ, kiji)
Kazakh: мәтін (mätın)
Khmer: អត្ថបទ (ʼatthaʼbɑt), ខ្វាម (km) (khvaam), គ្វាម (km) (kviəm)
Korean: 텍스트 (ko) (tekseuteu), 본문(本文) (ko) (bonmun)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tekst (ku), metin (ku)
Kyrgyz: текст (ky) (tekst)
Lao: ຂໍ້ຄວາມ (khǭ khuām), ບົດຄວາມ (bot khuām)
Latin: scriptum (la) n, textus (la) m
Latvian: teksts m
Lithuanian: tekstas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Text (lb)
Macedonian: текст (mk) m (tekst)
Malay: teks (ms)
Malayalam: പാഠം (ml) (pāṭhaṁ)
Manx: teks m
Maori: kuputuhi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: текст (mn) (tekst), сэдэв (mn) (sedev)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tekst (no) m or f
Nynorsk: tekst m or f
Pashto: متن m (matən)
Persian:
Dari: مَتْن (matn), نَوِشْتَه (nawišta)
Iranian Persian: مَتْن (matn), نِوِشْتِه (nevešte)
Polish: tekst (pl) m
Portuguese: texto (pt) m
Punjabi: ਪਾਠ (pāṭh)
Romanian: text (ro) n
Russian: текст (ru) m (tekst)
Sanskrit: पाठ (sa) m (pāṭha)
Scottish Gaelic: teacsa m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: те̏кст m, шти̑во n
Roman: tȅkst (sh) m, štȋvo (sh) n
Slovak: text m
Slovene: besedilo (sl) n, tekst m
Spanish: texto (es) m
Swahili: nakala (sw)
Swedish: text (sv)
Tagalog: lamandiwa, teksto
Tajik: матн (tg) (matn)
Tarantino: teste m
Tatar: текст (tekst)
Telugu: పాఠము (te) (pāṭhamu)
Thai: ข้อความ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-kwaam)
Tibetan: ཡིག་གཞི (yig gzhi), མདོ (mdo)
Turkish: metin (tr)
Turkmen: tekst
Ukrainian: текст (uk) m (tekst)
Urdu: مَتْن m (matn), ٹِکْسْٹ (ṭiksṭ), ٹیکْسْٹ (ur) (ṭeksṭ), نَوِشْتَہ m (naviśta)
Uyghur: تېكىست (tëkist)
Uzbek: matn (uz), tekst (uz)
Vietnamese: văn bản (vi) (文本)
Volapük: vödem (vo)
Walloon: tecse (wa) m
Welsh: testun (cy) m
Yakut: тиэкис (tiekis)
Yiddish: טעקסט m (tekst)
Yucatec Maya: tsʼíib :

### Verb

text (third-person singular simple present texts, present participle texting, simple past and past participle texted or (colloquial) text)
* (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
    Synonyms: message, (UK) SMS
    Just text me when you get here.
    I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
* (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
    Have you been texting all afternoon?
* (dated) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
** 1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1:I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
** 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music‎ (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.

#### Derived terms

* double text

#### Descendants

* → Welsh: tecstio

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Text in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
* “text”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* text in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “text”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin textus (“text”), from Latin textus, perfect passive participle of texō (“weave”). First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtekst]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtɛkst]

### Noun

text m (plural texts or textos)
* text

#### Derived terms

* hipertext
* subtext
* textar

#### Related terms

* textual

### References

* ↑ “text”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “text” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “text” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “text” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛkst]

### Noun

text m inan
* text
    text knihy ― the text of the book
    text písně ― lyrics
    text smlouvy ― the text of the contract

#### Derived terms

* otextovat
* podtext
* textař
* textovat
* textovka
* textový

### Further reading

* “text”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “text”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

From Persian تخت (taxt).

### Noun

text m
* throne
* bed
* wood, tree

#### Related terms

* textî
* textîn
* textînî

### References

* Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 389

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French texte, Latin textus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

text n (plural texte)
* text

### References

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

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

text c
* text