tejido

/teˈxido/ · B1 · noun · m

fabric

tejido — fabric

🧶🧵 tejido = woven, from tejer, Latin texere: same root as textile and texture

Spanish tejer (to weave) comes from Latin texere, which also gave English textile, texture and even text, a weave of words. Biology borrowed the same idea: tissue is cells woven together, so tejido covers both cloth and body tissue.

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