struo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together
- I compose, construct, build
- I ready, prepare, devise, contrive
- I place, arrange
- to heap up, load with
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Italic *strowō (construct, pile up) derived from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around), *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
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bestrew English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- instrew English
- obstruct English
- overstrew English
- strew English
- strewable English
- strewage English
- strewer English
- strewest English
- streweth English
- strewment English
- strewments English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- praestruo Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- substruo Latin
- superstruo Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- strø Norwegian Bokmål
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawą Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strå Norwegian Nynorsk
- strøya Norwegian Nynorsk
- strewian Old English
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- strewen Middle English
- strá Old Norse
- strå Danish
- struktura Czech
- strukturovat Czech
- strá Icelandic
- stra Old Swedish
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- indu Old Latin