construo

Latin

verb
Definitions
  • I heap, bring, collect or gather together.
  • I construct, build, fabricate, erect.
  • (grammar) I connect, construct.

Etymology

Affix from Latin struō (arrange, build, compose, construct, pile up, prepare, put together, I build, erect) root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*strew-

Gloss

strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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