structura

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 +‎ -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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative structūra structūrae
Genitive structūrae structūrārum
Dative structūrae structūrīs
Accusative structūram structūrās
Ablative structūrā structūrīs
Vocative structūra structūrae

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)
  • 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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