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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la struō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kõːˈstruːk.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [konˈstruk.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cōnstrūctiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnstrūctiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[cōnstruō]] “to pile up, build” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore defines it as the building up of bricks and height, so called because it binds together.^(Isidore)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of putting things together and of the arrangement of words.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the putting together, piling up of materials in building, erection, and of other things, as Cicero's ''cōnstrūctiō hominis'' “the structure of man”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) From Cicero it meant the arrangement of words or literary matter, and Lewis and Short call it good prose, most frequent in Cicero and not in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant an erecting, building, joining, construction.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it of building, including the duties of bridge- and fortress-work.^(DMLBS) [[en|construction]] came in the late 14th century, first of construing the arrangement of words.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of structure and of word order.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore defines it.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''construction'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A putting together; building, [[m|en|construction]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # The structure of a thing.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # The arrangement of words.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[cōnstruō]]
+ * [[struō]]
+ * [[en|construction]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}