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See also: structură

French

Pronunciation

Verb

structura

  1. third-person singular past historic of structurer

Interlingua

Noun

structura (plural structuras)

  1. structure

Latin

Etymology

From struō (“to build”) +‎ -tūra (“concrete action noun suffix”).

Noun

strūctūra f (genitive strūctūrae); first declension

  1. (abstract) the practice or process of building, construction
  2. (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
  3. (concrete, construction) masonry, brickwork; cement (the result of application of a certain construction technique)

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

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
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French structurer.

Verb

a structura (third-person singular present structurează, past participle structurat) 1st conjugation

  1. to structure

Conjugation

    conjugation of structura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
More information infinitive, gerund ...
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