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French
Pronunciation
Verb
structura
- third-person singular past historic of structurer
Interlingua
Noun
structura (plural structuras)
- structure
Latin
Etymology
From struō (“to build”) + -tūra (“concrete action noun suffix”).
Noun
strūctūra f (genitive strūctūrae); first declension
- (abstract) the practice or process of building, construction
- (also grammar) the method, form, structure or arrangement of anything
c. 15 BCE,
Vitruvius,
De architectura 2.8.1:
- strūctūrārum genera sunt haec: rēticulātum, quō nunc omnēs ūtuntur, et antīquum, quod incertum dīcitur
- the construction techniques are as follows: the diamond-shaped ("reticulated") type, which is what everyone uses nowadays, and the old type, which is called "irregular"
106 BCE – 43 BCE,
Cicero,
De Optimo Genere Oratorum 5.4:
- (ēloquentia) sed et verbōrum est strūctura quaedam
- but it (eloquence) is also a kind of building technique
c. 4 BCE – 65 CE,
Seneca the Younger,
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 89.9:
- propriētātēs verbōrum exigit et strūctūram et argūmentātiōnēs
- it (rational philosophy) works out the proper meanings of words, their arrangement and their rhetorical force
- (concrete, construction) masonry, brickwork; cement (the result of application of a certain construction technique)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Appears to have left no inherited descendants.
References
Further reading
- “structura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “structura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- structura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
- the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French structurer.
Verb
a structura (third-person singular present structurează, past participle structurat) 1st conj.
- to structure
Conjugation