Texas
English
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Etymology
From Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.səs/
- (locally also) IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.sɪs/, /ˈtɛk.sɪz/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophone: texas
- Hyphenation: Tex‧as
- Rhymes: -ɛksəs, -ɛksɪs
Proper noun
Texas
- A state in the south-central region of the United States. Capital: Austin. Largest city: Houston.
- Several places in the United States:
- A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
- A hamlet in Oswego County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia.
- A rural town in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
- University of Texas at Austin.
- (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
- (historical) a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846
Synonyms
- Lone Star State (nickname)
Meronyms
(state)
- Anderson County
- Andrews County
- Angelina County
- Aransas County
- Archer County
- Armstrong County
- Atascosa County
- Austin County
- Bailey County
- Bandera County
- Bastrop County
- Baylor County
- Bee County
- Bell County
- Bexar County
- Blanco County
- Borden County
- Bosque County
- Bowie County
- Brazoria County
- Brazos County
- Brewster County
- Briscoe County
- Brooks County
- Brown County
- Burleson County
- Burnet County
- Caldwell County
- Calhoun County
- Callahan County
- Cameron County
- Camp County
- Carson County
- Cass County
- Castro County
- Chambers County
- Cherokee County
- Childress County
- Clay County
- Cochran County
- Coke County
- Coleman County
- Collin County
- Collingsworth County
- Colorado County
- Comal County
- Comanche County
- Concho County
- Cooke County
- Coryell County
- Cottle County
- Crane County
- Crockett County
- Crosby County
- Culberson County
- Dallam County
- Dallas County
- Dawson County
- Deaf Smith County
- Delta County
- Denton County
- DeWitt County
- Dickens County
- Dimmit County
- Donley County
- Duval County
- Eastland County
- Ector County
- Edwards County
- Ellis County
- El Paso County
- Erath County
- Falls County
- Fannin County
- Fayette County
- Fisher County
- Floyd County
- Foard County
- Fort Bend County
- Franklin County
- Freestone County
- Frio County
- Gaines County
- Galveston County
- Garza County
- Gillespie County
- Glasscock County
- Goliad County
- Gonzales County
- Gray County
- Grayson County
- Gregg County
- Grimes County
- Guadalupe County
- Hale County
- Hall County
- Hamilton County
- Hansford County
- Hardeman County
- Hardin County
- Harris County
- Harrison County
- Hartley County
- Haskell County
- Hays County
- Hemphill County
- Henderson County
- Hidalgo County
- Hill County
- Hockley County
- Hood County
- Hopkins County
- Houston County
- Howard County
- Hudspeth County
- Hunt County
- Hutchinson County
- Irion County
- Jack County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jeff Davis County
- Jefferson County
- Jim Hogg County
- Jim Wells County
- Johnson County
- Jones County
- Karnes County
- Kaufman County
- Kendall County
- Kenedy County
- Kent County
- Kerr County
- Kimble County
- King County
- Kinney County
- Kleberg County
- Knox County
- Lamar County
- Lamb County
- Lampasas County
- La Salle County
- Lavaca County
- Lee County
- Leon County
- Liberty County
- Limestone County
- Lipscomb County
- Live Oak County
- Llano County
- Loving County
- Lubbock County
- Lynn County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Martin County
- Mason County
- Matagorda County
- Maverick County
- McCulloch County
- McLennan County
- McMullen County
- Medina County
- Menard County
- Midland County
- Milam County
- Mills County
- Mitchell County
- Montague County
- Montgomery County
- Moore County
- Morris County
- Motley County
- Nacogdoches County
- Navarro County
- Newton County
- Nolan County
- Nueces County
- Ochiltree County
- Oldham County
- Orange County
- Palo Pinto County
- Panola County
- Parker County
- Parmer County
- Pecos County
- Polk County
- Potter County
- Presidio County
- Rains County
- Randall County
- Reagan County
- Real County
- Red River County
- Reeves County
- Refugio County
- Roberts County
- Robertson County
- Rockwall County
- Runnels County
- Rusk County
- Sabine County
- San Augustine County
- San Jacinto County
- San Patricio County
- San Saba County
- Schleicher County
- Scurry County
- Shackelford County
- Shelby County
- Sherman County
- Smith County
- Somervell County
- Starr County
- Stephens County
- Sterling County
- Stonewall County
- Sutton County
- Swisher County
- Tarrant County
- Taylor County
- Terrell County
- Terry County
- Throckmorton County
- Titus County
- Tom Green County
- Travis County
- Trinity County
- Tyler County
- Upshur County
- Upton County
- Uvalde County
- Val Verde County
- Van Zandt County
- Victoria County
- Walker County
- Waller County
- Ward County
- Washington County
- Webb County
- Wharton County
- Wheeler County
- Wichita County
- Wilbarger County
- Willacy County
- Williamson County
- Wilson County
- Winkler County
- Wise County
- Wood County
- Yoakum County
- Young County
- Zapata County
- Zavala County
Derived terms
- Teck's Ass
- Tex
- Texan
- Texarkana
- Texas 42
- Texas bankroll
- Texas blind snake
- Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis)
- Texas blues
- Texas cattle fever
- Texas chili
- Texas cichlid
- Texas City
- Texas County
- Texas crabapple
- Texas deathmatch
- Texas ebony
- Texas fever
- Texas garter snake
- Texas heart shot
- Texas hold 'em
- Texas Indian paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa)
- Texasization
- Texasize
- Texas justice
- Texas leaguer
- Texas League single
- Texas lined snake
- Texas mickey
- Texas mountain laurel (Dermatophyllum secundiflorum)
- Texas ratio
- Texas rig
- Texas roll
- Texas root rot
- Texass
- Texas sacahuiste
- Texas sharpshooter fallacy
- Texas-sized
- Texas spiny lizard
- Texas tea
- Texas toast
- Texas Tommy
- Texas toothpick
- Texas tower
- Texas Triangle
- Texas trinity
- Texas two-step
- Texas umbrella tree
- Texas vervain (Verbena halei)
- Texas wedge
- Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)
- Texhoma
- Texian
- Texican
- Tex-Mex
- Texoma
- Texpat
- Texpatriate
- TX
- West Texas Intermediate
Translations
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See also
States: Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming |
Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
Further reading
Texas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Texas on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas ?
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Related terms
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Texas
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Czech
Proper noun
Texas m inan (related adjective texaský, demonym Texasan, female demonym Texasanka)
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Declension
Further reading
- “Texas”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “Texas”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Etymology
Proper noun
Texas (genitive Texas')
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English Texas or Spanish Texas.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas n
- Texas (a state of the United States; former independent republic; former province of Mexico) [from early 19th c.]
Derived terms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Texas
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Declension
Inflection of Texas (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Texas | — | |
genitive | Texasin | — | |
partitive | Texasia | — | |
illative | Texasiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Texas | — | |
accusative | nom. | Texas | — |
gen. | Texasin | ||
genitive | Texasin | — | |
partitive | Texasia | — | |
inessive | Texasissa | — | |
elative | Texasista | — | |
illative | Texasiin | — | |
adessive | Texasilla | — | |
ablative | Texasilta | — | |
allative | Texasille | — | |
essive | Texasina | — | |
translative | Texasiksi | — | |
abessive | Texasitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas m
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Derived terms
Related terms
German
Etymology
From Spanish Texas, chiefly through English Texas.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas n (proper noun, genitive Texas' or (with an article) Texas)
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Derived terms
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas m
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Related terms
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Te‧xas
Proper noun
Texas m
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Related terms
Sicilian
Etymology
Borrowed from English Texas, from Spanish Texas, Tejas.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Texas m
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Related terms
Slovak
Proper noun
Texas m inan
- Texas (a state of the United States)
References
- “Texas”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtexas/ [ˈt̪e.xas]
- Rhymes: -exas
- IPA(key): /ˈteɡsas/ [ˈt̪eɣ̞.sas] (proscribed but common in South America)
- Rhymes: -eɡsas
- Syllabification: Te‧xas
Proper noun
Texas f
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Texas on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Swedish
Proper noun
Texas n (genitive Texas)
- Texas (a state of the United States)
Anagrams
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Caddo
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɛksəs
- Rhymes:English/ɛksəs/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɛksɪs
- Rhymes:English/ɛksɪs/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Texas, USA
- en:States of the United States
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Towns in Wisconsin, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Places in Wisconsin, USA
- en:Villages in New York, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Alabama, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Georgia, USA
- en:Places in Georgia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky, USA
- en:Places in Kentucky, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Mississippi, USA
- en:Places in Mississippi, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Ohio, USA
- en:Places in Ohio, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA
- en:Towns in Queensland
- en:Towns in Australia
- en:Places in Queensland
- en:Places in Australia
- en:Universities
- English terms with rare senses
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from place names
- English female given names
- English female given names from place names
- English unisex given names
- English unisex given names from place names
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Historical polities
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- ca:Texas, USA
- ca:States of the United States
- ca:Places in the United States
- Central Nahuatl lemmas
- Central Nahuatl proper nouns
- nhn:Texas, USA
- nhn:States of the United States
- nhn:Places in the United States
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech terms spelled with X
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- cs:Texas, USA
- cs:States of the United States
- cs:Places in the United States
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish terms spelled with X
- da:Texas, USA
- da:States of the United States
- da:Places in the United States
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms borrowed from Spanish
- Dutch terms derived from Spanish
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Texas, USA
- nl:States of the United States
- nl:Places in the United States
- nl:Historical political subdivisions
- nl:Places in Mexico
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with X
- fi:Texas, USA
- fi:States of the United States
- fi:Places in the United States
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Texas, USA
- fr:States of the United States
- fr:Places in the United States
- German terms derived from Spanish
- German terms derived from English
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Texas, USA
- de:States of the United States
- de:Places in the United States
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian terms derived from Spanish
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛksas
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛksas/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian terms spelled with X
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Texas, USA
- it:States of the United States
- it:Places in the United States
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms derived from Spanish
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Texas, USA
- pt:States of the United States
- pt:Places in the United States
- Sicilian terms borrowed from English
- Sicilian terms derived from English
- Sicilian terms derived from Spanish
- Sicilian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian nouns
- Sicilian masculine nouns
- scn:Texas, USA
- scn:States of the United States
- scn:Places in the United States
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak terms spelled with X
- Slovak masculine nouns
- Slovak inanimate nouns
- sk:Texas, USA
- sk:States of the United States
- sk:Places in the United States
- Spanish terms derived from Caddo
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/exas
- Rhymes:Spanish/exas/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡsas
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡsas/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Texas, USA
- es:States of the United States
- es:Places in the United States
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Texas, USA
- sv:States of the United States
- sv:Places in the United States