textura

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

textūra, ae, f. [texo], a web, texture (very rare).

I Lit.: aranearum, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 24: Minervae, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 23; Sen. Ep. 121, 22.—

II Transf., a construction , structure : quam tenui constet texturā (animi natura), Lucr. 3, 209; Luc. 9, 777.

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