constructio

Latin

Etymology

From cōnstruō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /konˈstruːk.ti.oː/, [kõːˈs̠t̪ruːkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /konˈstruk.t͡si.o/, [konˈst̪rukt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

cōnstrūctiō f (genitive cōnstrūctiōnis); third declension

1. The act of putting, placing or joining together.
2. A building, construction.
3. (grammar) A grammatical connection; construction.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōnstrūctiō	cōnstrūctiōnēs
Genitive	cōnstrūctiōnis	cōnstrūctiōnum
Dative	cōnstrūctiōnī	cōnstrūctiōnibus
Accusative	cōnstrūctiōnem	cōnstrūctiōnēs
Ablative	cōnstrūctiōne	cōnstrūctiōnibus
Vocative	cōnstrūctiō	cōnstrūctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: construcció
• Danish: konstruktion
• Dutch: constructie
• English: construction
  • → Mongolian: констракшн (konstrakšn)
• French: construction
• Galician: construción
• German: Konstruktion
• Italian: costruzione
• Portuguese: construção
• Romanian: construcție
• Russian: констру́кция (konstrúkcija)
• Spanish: construcción

References

• “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• constructio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi