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Latin
Etymology
sub- + struo
Pronunciation
Verb
substruō (present infinitive substruere, perfect active substrūxī, supine substrūctum); third conjugation
- to build underneath
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “substruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “substruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- substruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a gravel path: substruere viam glarea (Liv. 41. 27)