structura

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

structura

1. third-person singular past historic of structurer

structura (plural structuras)

1. structure

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

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 Minor, 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)

First-declension noun.

Appears to have left no inherited descendants.

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

• “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, 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
    

Borrowed from French structurer.

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

1. to structure