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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la struō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɛks(ː)tru.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɛks.stru.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''exstruō''' (present infinitive exstruere, perfect active exstrūxī, supine exstrūctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''extruō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ex-]] and [[struō]] “to pile up, build”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of heaping up.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to heap up, pile a receptacle full, as in Plautus, and in Cato to build up, construct.^(OLD 2012) In Sallust it meant to build on a site.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to build, raise, erect.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of heaping up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of building.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of building on a site.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To heap up.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To build, [[m|en|construct]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To build on (a site).^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[exstrūctiō]]
+ * [[exstrūctor]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[struō]]
+ * [[īnstruō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}