leipäteksti

leipä (“bread”) +‎ teksti (“text”). Calque of German Brottext, thus called because the typesetters were formerly paid by letter and the body was the part of the text from which they earned their daily bread.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlei̯pæˌteksti/,
• Rhymes: -eksti
• Hyphenation^(key): leipä‧teksti

leipäteksti

1. running text, body text, body of text (main content of a printed document, as distinct from headings, footnotes, diagrams, data tables, logos, images, captions, signatures, salutations, headers, etc. - only rarely does not include the summary, introduction, or other part of the text)
2. (by extension) body (content of any text)

• “leipäteksti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02