constructio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *ster-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *strew-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréweti

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struō

Latin cōnstruō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cōnstrūctiō

From cōnstruō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈstruːk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈstruk.t͡si.o]

Noun

cōnstrūctiō f (genitive cōnstrūctiōnis); third declension

1. The act of putting, placing or joining together.
2. A building, construction.
3. (grammar) A grammatical connection; construction.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnstrūctiō	cōnstrūctiōnēs
genitive	cōnstrūctiōnis	cōnstrūctiōnum
dative	cōnstrūctiōnī	cōnstrūctiōnibus
accusative	cōnstrūctiōnem	cōnstrūctiōnēs
ablative	cōnstrūctiōne	cōnstrūctiōnibus
vocative	cōnstrūctiō	cōnstrūctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: construcció
• Danish: konstruktion
• Dutch: constructie
• English: construction
  • → Mongolian: констракшн (konstrakšn)
• French: construction
• Galician: construción
• German: Konstruktion
• Italian: costruzione
• Portuguese: construção
• Romanian: construcție
• Russian: констру́кция (konstrúkcija)
• Spanish: construcción

References

• “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “constructio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi