constructio

== Latin == === Etymology === From cōnstruō + -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kõːˈstruːk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [konˈstruk.t͡si.o] === Noun === cōnstrūctiō f (genitive cōnstrūctiōnis); third declension The act of putting, placing or joining together. A building, construction. (grammar) A grammatical connection; construction. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “constructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “constructio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.