# constituo
## Latin
### Etymology

From con- (“with”) +‎ statuō (“set up; establish”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /konˈsti.tu.oː/, [kõːˈs̠t̪ɪt̪uoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /konˈsti.tu.o/, [konˈst̪iːt̪uo]

### Verb

cōnstituō (present infinitive cōnstituere, perfect active cōnstituī, supine cōnstitūtum); third conjugation
* to place, put, locate, lay
    Synonyms: ponō, colloco, loco, statuo, sisto, figo, struō, impono, defigo
* to set up, establish, constitute, found
* to build, erect, construct
    Synonyms: aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, statuō, exstruō, mōlior
* (military) to line up, deploy, order
* to deliberate, decide, resolve
    Synonyms: statuō, dēcernō, placet
* to nominate, appoint, elect
    Synonyms: designo, assigno, demando, mando, delego, lego, discribo, ordino, addico
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Derived terms

* cōnstitūtiō f
* cōnstitūtum n
* cōnstitūtus

#### Related terms

* cōnstitūtiōnārius
* cōnstitūtōrius

#### Descendants

* Albanian: kushtetuta
* Catalan: constituir
* English: constitute
* French: constituer
* Galician: constituír
* Italian: costituire
* Portuguese: constituir
* Romanian: constitui
* Spanish: constituir

### References

* constituo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “constituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “constituo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* constituo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem imponere, afferre, constituere alicui rei to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei to impose fixed limitations: fines certos terminosque constituere to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22) to build, found a city: oppidum constituere, condere to give the state a constitution: rem publicam constituere to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare) to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere to found a colony: coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16) to ordain as punishment that..: hanc poenam constituere in aliquem, ut... to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere to fix a day for the engagement: diem pugnae constituere (B. G. 3. 24) to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)

## Portuguese
### Verb

constituo
* first-person singular present indicative of constituir