constructio
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈstruːk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [konˈst̪ruk.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
cōnstrūctiō f (genitive cōnstrūctiōnis); third declension
- The act of putting, placing or joining together.
- A building, construction.
- (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
- the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi