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Where does “textuality” come from?

Textuality comes from English textual plus the French suffix -ité, which derives from Latin -itas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -it-.

textuality (English): The attributes that distinguish a text as an...

Definitions

  1. The attributes that distinguish a text as an...

Ancestry of “textuality”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtextualOf, or pertaining to text; Pertaining to text...
2Latintextuswoven, having been woven; texture, structure;...
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “textuality”

  • metatextuality
  • extratextuality
  • subtextuality
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