textile

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛks.taɪl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

textile (plural textiles)

1. (usually in the plural) Any material made of interlacing fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles.
2. (naturism) A non-nudist.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "naturism"): naturist

Derived terms

• e-textile
• textile art
• textile banana
• textile cone

 

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
• Finnish: tekstiili (fi), kude (fi), kangas (fi)
• French: textile (fr)
• Galician: téxtil m
• Georgian: ტექსტილი (ṭeksṭili)
• German: Textilie (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: 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
• Maori: 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

Borrowed 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

From textilis (“woven”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtek.sti.le/, [ˈt̪ɛks̠t̪ɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtek.sti.le/, [ˈt̪ɛkst̪ile]

Noun

textile n (genitive textilis); third declension

1. fabric, textile, canvas, piece of cloth

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	textile	textilia
Genitive	textilis	textilium
Dative	textilī	textilibus
Accusative	textile	textilia
Ablative	textilī	textilibus
Vocative	textile	textilia

Related terms

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

 

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