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Etymology

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From Middle English textewell, textueel, textuel, textuele, tixtuel (learned in texts, bookish), possibly from Latin textuālis; also compare Middle French textuele; or perhaps a coinage by Chaucer from Latin textus and Middle English -el.[1] English spelling conformed to Latin from late 15c.[2]

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛks.tju.əl/, /ˈtɛks.tʃu.əl/, /ˈtɛks.tʃəl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

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textual (comparative more textual, superlative most textual)

  1. Of or pertaining to text.
    1. Of or pertaining to textuality.
      • 2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents[1]:
        On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
    2. Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.
      I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.
  2. Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.

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  1. ^ textuē̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “textual”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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textual m or f (masculine and feminine plural textuals)

  1. textual
  2. verbatim, word-for-word

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Galician

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textual m or f (plural textuais)

  1. textual
  2. verbatim, word-for-word
  3. exact, precise

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From texto +‎ -ual.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tes.tuˈaw/ [tes.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /tesˈtwaw/ [tesˈtwaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /teʃ.tuˈaw/ [teʃ.tʊˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /teʃˈtwaw/ [teʃˈtwaʊ̯]
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: tex‧tu‧al

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textual m or f (plural textuais)

  1. textual
  2. exact, precise

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Romanian

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Borrowed from French textuel. By surface analysis, text +‎ -ual.

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textual m or n (feminine singular textuală, masculine plural textuali, feminine and neuter plural textuale)

  1. verbatim

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /teɡsˈtwal/ [t̪eɣ̞sˈt̪wal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: tex‧tual

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textual m or f (masculine and feminine plural textuales)

  1. exact, precise, literal
  2. textual

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