textile

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛks.taɪl/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

textile (plural textiles)

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

• See also Thesaurus:fabric

• (antonym(s) of “naturism”): naturist

textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)

1. (naturism) Clothing compulsive.

   a textile beach

• (antonym(s) of “naturism”): clothing optional, nude, naturist

Borrowed from Latin textile.

• IPA^(key): /tɛk.stil/

• Audio; “le textile”:

  (file)

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.

textile m (plural textiles)

1. textile, fabric [from 1872]
2. (naturism) textile, non-nudist

• → Turkish: tekstil

• “textile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From textilis (“woven”).

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

textile n (genitive textilis); third declension

1. fabric, textile, canvas, piece of cloth

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

(all borrowed)

textile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of textilis