French

Verb

structura

1. third-person singular past historic of structurer

Interlingua

Noun

structura ‎(plural structuras)

1. structure

Latin

Etymology

From struō +‎ -tūra.

Noun

structūra f ‎(genitive structūrae); first declension

1. (mostly construction) a fitting together, adaptation, adjustment.

   in structurā saxorum rudium.

2. (language) an arrangement, order, structure (in Cicero, as a figure of speech, with quasi or quaedam)

   et verborum est structura quaedam, Cicero. Opt. Gen. 2, 5

   proprietates verborum exigit, et structuram et argumentationes, Senecca. Ep. 89, 9

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
    
  • the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi