# instruo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From instrui +‎ -o.

### Pronunciation

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* IPA: [insˈtruo]
* Rhymes: -uo
* Hyphenation: ins‧tru‧o

### Noun

instruo (accusative singular instruon, plural instruoj, accusative plural instruojn)
* instruction
    Synonyms: instrukcio, instruado, komando

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *enstrowō. Equivalent to in- (“in, at, on”) +‎ struō (“pile up, arrange; construct”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈin.stru.oː/, [ˈĩːs̠t̪ruoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈin.stru.o/, [ˈinst̪ruo]

### Verb

īnstruō (present infinitive īnstruere, perfect active īnstrūxī, supine īnstrūctum); third conjugation, third person-only in the passive
* to build in or into, insert; erect, construct
    Synonyms: condo, fundo, constituo, statuo, figo
* to arrange, organise or organize, plan; devise
    Synonyms: parō, compōnō
* to prepare (for), provide (for), make ready, set up, furnish, provide, equip, fit out, procure
    Synonyms: exōrnō, adōrnō, ōrnō, praebeō, apparō, parō, accingō, suggerō, comparō, ministrō, afferō
* to provide with information, teach, inform, instruct
    Synonyms: doceō, discō, ēducō, ērudiō, ēdoceō, magistrō, imbuō, fingō
* (military) to draw up (in battle formation), array, set in order, form
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.15:Romanus [...] dimicationi ultimae instructus intentusque Tiberim transitThe Roman general intended and arrayed [his forces] for a decisive battle, crossed the Tiber

#### Conjugation

* The second-person singular perfect indicative active form īnstrūxistī sometimes occurs syncopated as īnstrūxtī.

#### Derived terms

* īnstrūctē
* īnstrūctiō
* īnstrūctor
* īnstrūctūra
* īnstrūctus
* īnstrūmentum

#### Related terms

* circumstruō
* construō
* dēstruō
* exstruō
* interstruō
* obstruō
* perstruō
* praestruō
* rēstruō
* struō
* substruō
* superstruō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: instruir
* → Dutch: instrueren
* → English: instruct
* → Esperanto: instrui
* Galician: instruír
* → German: instruieren
* Italian: istruire
* Old French:
** French: instruire
** Norman: înstruithe (Jersey)
* Portuguese: instruir
* Romanian: instrui
* Sicilian: strujiri
* Spanish: instruir

### References

* “instruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “instruo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* instruo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to waylay a person: insidias alicui parare, facere, struere, instruere, tendere to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide) to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62) to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere to draw up the army in three lines: aciem triplicem instruere (B. G. 1. 24) to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere

## Portuguese
### Verb

instruo
* first-person singular present indicative of instruir