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Latin
Etymology
From ex- + struō (“compose, build”).
Pronunciation
Verb
exstruō (present infinitive exstruere, perfect active exstrūxī, supine exstrūctum); third conjugation
- to pile, heap or build up
- Synonyms: accumulō, cumulō, struō, onerō, inaedificō
- to build up, raise, rear, erect, construct
- Synonyms: exaedificō, aedificō, inaedificō, condō, struō, cōnstruō, compōnō, fundō, cōnstituō, statuō, mōlior
Conjugation
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References
- “exstruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exstruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exstruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to erect a building, a monument: exstruere aedificium, monumentum
- to raise a rampart, earthwork: vallum iacere, exstruere, facere
- to raise towers: turres instituere, exstruere