Context

Context

• the "situation" (placement) or relationship of something to its surroundings
  • with words, "context" means how a word or words relate and interact to the words around them
    • thus "contextual meaning" is derived from a word's "situation" within a text

Context etymology

• from Latin contextus for "a joining together" or "woven together"
  • con- (with) + texere (to weave)
• from PIE *teks- "to weave, make or fabricate"

See Semantics