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Latin
Etymology
From con- (“with”) + statuō (“set up; establish”).
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnstituō (present infinitive cōnstituere, perfect active cōnstituī, supine cōnstitūtum); third conjugation
- to place, put, locate, lay
- Synonyms: ponō, colloco, loco, statuo, sisto, figo, struō, impono, defigo
- to set up, establish, constitute, found
- to build, erect, construct
- Synonyms: aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, statuō, exstruō, mōlior
- (military) to line up, deploy, order
- to deliberate, decide, resolve
- Synonyms: statuō, dēcernō, placet
- to nominate, appoint, elect
- Synonyms: designo, assigno, demando, mando, delego, lego, discribo, ordino, addico
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References
- constituo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), 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, 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)
Portuguese
Verb
constituo
- first-person singular present indicative of constituir