# structura
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stʁyk.ty.ʁa/
* Homophones: structuras, structurât

### Verb

structura
* third-person singular past historic of structurer

## Interlingua
### Noun

structura (plural structuras)
* structure

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Noun

strūctūra f (genitive strūctūrae); first declension
* (abstract) the practice or process of building, construction
* (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 dīciturthe 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 quaedambut 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 argūmentātiōnēsit (rational philosophy) works out the proper meanings of words, their arrangement and their rhetorical force
* (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.
* to structure