texō xuī, xtus, ere TEC-, to weave: Texens telam, T.: tegumenta corporum vel texta vel suta.

—To join, fit together, plait, braid, interweave, construct, make, fabricate, build: rubeā texatur fiscina virgā, V.: saepes, V.: crates, H.: varios flores, O.: in medio foro basilicam: harundine textis (hibernaculis), L.: Labyrinthus . . . Parietibus textum caecis iter, V.

—Fig., to weave, compose: quamquam tela texitur ea in civitate, ut, etc.: amor patriae Quod tua texuerunt scripta retexit opus, i. e. undoes what your writings had accomplished, O.: opus luculente.