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French
Pronunciation
Verb
architectura
- third-person singular past historic of architecturer
Anagrams
Interlingua
Noun
architectura (plural architecturas)
- architecture
Latin
Etymology
From architectus (“architect, designer”) + -tūra, the former of which is a remodeling of Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn) under influence of tegō. The "Latinization" of the second component facilitated the suffixion of -tūra, overriding the originally stem-immanent t.
Pronunciation
Noun
architectūra f (genitive architectūrae); first declension
- architecture
- Synonym: architectonia
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “architectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “architectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- architectura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “architectura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “architectura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Noun
architectura f (plural architecturas)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of arquitetura.