constituo

From con- (“with”) +‎ statuō (“set up; establish”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈstɪ.tu.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈst̪iː.t̪u.o]

cōnstituō (present infinitive cōnstituere, perfect active cōnstituī, supine cōnstitūtum); third conjugation

1. to place, put, locate, lay

   Synonyms: ponō, colloco, loco, statuo, sisto, figo, struō, impono, defigo

2. to set up, establish, constitute, found
3. to build, erect, construct

   Synonyms: aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, statuō, exstruō, mōlior

4. (military) to line up, deploy, order
5. to deliberate, decide, resolve

   Synonyms: statuō, dēcernō, placet

6. to nominate, appoint, elect

   Synonyms: designo, assigno, demando, mando, delego, lego, discribo, ordino, addico

   Considerate ergo fratres, viros ex vobis boni testimonii septem, plenos Spiritu sancto, et sapientia, quos constituamus super hoc opus.

   Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit, and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. (Vulgate, Acts 6:3)

• cōnstitūtiō f
• cōnstitūtum n
• cōnstitūtus

• cōnstitūtiōnārius
• cōnstitūtōrius

• constituo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “constituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• constituo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem imponere, afferre, constituere alicui rei
    
  • to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
    
  • to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
  • to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
    
  • to impose fixed limitations: fines certos terminosque constituere
    
  • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    
  • to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
    
  • to build, found a city: oppidum constituere, condere
    
  • to give the state a constitution: rem publicam constituere
    
  • to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
    
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
  • to found a colony: coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16)
    
  • to ordain as punishment that..: hanc poenam constituere in aliquem, ut...
    
  • to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere
    
  • to fix a day for the engagement: diem pugnae constituere (B. G. 3. 24)
    
  • to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
    
  • to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
    

constituo

1. first-person singular present indicative of constituir