texo

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

texō xuī, xtus, ere

TEC-, to weave : Texens telam, T.: tegumenta corporum vel texta vel suta. — To join, fit together, plait, braid, interweave, construct, make, fabricate, build : rubeā texatur fiscina virgā, V.: saepes, V.: crates, H.: varios flores, O.: in medio foro basilicam: harundine textis (hibernaculis), L.: Labyrinthus . . . Parietibus textum caecis iter, V.—Fig., to weave, compose : quamquam tela texitur ea in civitate, ut, etc.: amor patriae Quod tua texuerunt scripta retexit opus, i. e. undoes what your writings had accomplished , O.: opus luculente.

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