structura

See also: structură

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁyk.ty.ʁa/
• Homophones: structuras, structurât

Verb

structura

1. third-person singular past historic of structurer

Interlingua

Noun

structura (plural structuras)

1. structure

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Appears to have left no inherited descendants.

• → Afrikaans: struktuur
• → Bulgarian: структура (struktura)
• → Catalan: estructura
• → Czech: struktura
• → English: structure
• → Esperanto: strukturo
• → French: structure
• → Friulian: struture
• → German: Struktur
• → Hungarian: struktúra
• → Irish: struchtúr
• → Ido: strukturo
• → Italian: struttura
• → Macedonian: структура (struktura)
• → Dutch: structuur
• → Papiamentu: struktura
• → Piedmontese: strutura
• → Portuguese: estrutura
• → Romanian: structură
• → Russian: структура (struktura)
• → Spanish: estructura
• → Venetian: strutura
• → Welsh: strwythur

References

• “structura” on page 2016 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French structurer.

Verb

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

1. to structure

Conjugation

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

    conjugation of structura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)