Wiktionary

structura

See also: structură

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

structura

  1. third-person singular past historic of structurer

Interlingua edit

Noun edit

structura (plural structuras)

  1. structure

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative strūctūra strūctūrae
Genitive strūctūrae strūctūrārum
Dative strūctūrae strūctūrīs
Accusative strūctūram strūctūrās
Ablative strūctūrā strūctūrīs
Vocative strūctūra strūctūrae

Descendants edit

Appears to have left no inherited descendants.

References edit

Further reading edit

  • “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the structure of the sentence: compositio, structura verborum
    • the construction: constructio, structura verborum, forma dicendi

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French structurer.

Verb edit

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

  1. to structure

Conjugation edit

    conjugation of structura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a structura
gerund structurând
past participle structurat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present structurez structurezi structurează structurăm structurați structurează
imperfect structuram structurai structura structuram structurați structurau
simple perfect structurai structurași structură structurarăm structurarăți structurară
pluperfect structurasem structuraseși structurase structuraserăm structuraserăți structuraseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să structurez să structurezi să structureze să structurăm să structurați să structureze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative structurează structurați
negative nu structura nu structurați
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