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Posted September 04, 2008 9: 51 AM by robust (Latin: robustus oaken) vocabulary (Latin: vocabularium, verbal) of technical (from Greek technikos of art, skillful, from technē art, craft, skill; akin Latin texere to weave) terms (Latin terminus term, expression) that was already prepared for us.
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[Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus, from past participle of contexere, to join together: com -, com - + texere, to weave.] 1.
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To the same root belong Latin _texere, _ "to weave," Greek [Greek: technae] "art"; so that the child and art have their names from the same primitive source -- the mother was the former of the child as she was of the chief arts of life.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Vos non seminatis neque metitis, et Deus vos pascit; et dedit vobis flumina et fontes ad potandum, montes et colles, saxa et ibices ad refugium, et arbores altes ad nidificandum; et quum nec filare nec texere sciatis, praebet tam vobis quam vestris filiis necessarium indumentum.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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Athenas, antiqua nobilitate celebres, expugnant; et, maxima ibidem praeda direpta, opifices etiam, qui sericos pannos texere solent, ob ignominiam Imperatoris illius, suique principis gloriam, captivos deducunt.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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[Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus, from past participle of contexere, to join together: com -, com - + texere, to weave.] 1.
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"Purple, Kermes and Woad: The Trilogy of Mediterranean Precious Dyeing" www. texere.u-net.dk
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Paetus), 'Quid tibi ego in epistulis videor? nonne plebeio sermone agere tecum? nec enim semper eodem modo: quid enim simile habet epistula aut iudicio aut contioni? ... epistulas vero cottidianis verbis texere solemus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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