English → Latin
“construction” in Latin
aedificātiōbuilding, constructing (act of); building, structure, edifice; instructing, edificationexaedificātiōthe completion of a building or (figuratively) an orationexstrūctiōbuilding up, constructioncompositiōarrangement, combination; union; agreement, pactcōnstrūctiōThe act of putting, placing or joining together.; A building, construction.; A grammatical connection; construction.
The English word construction itself goes back to Latin struō, through cōnstructiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
construction
the act of constructing, aedificatio: exaedificatio: exstructio: construction of a wall, ductus muri.
Grammatical construction, verborum conformatio or compositio (the way in which one word follows another): consecutio verborum (the logical order of the words according to grammar): constructio (is used in Cic. for the artificial arrangement of a speech; but in grammarians = construction).
Meaning, sense; e.g., a word admits of various constructions, bujus vocis potestas multiplex est (after Auct. ad Her., 4, 54, in.): this word does not admit of any other construction, but, etc., neque ulla alia huic verbo subjecta notio est, nisi etc.: whenever a word admits of more than one construction, cum verbum potest in duas pluresve sententias accipi: to put a good or favorable construction on anything, aliquid in bonam partem accipere or bene interpretari; sine offensione accipere aliquid; to put the worst construction on anything, in malam partem accipere or male interpretari aliquid: to put a better or more favorable construction on anything, in mitiorem or in meliorem partem accipere or interpretari aliquid: a worse construction, in pejorem partem accipere or deterius interpretari aliquid: a worse construction on every thing, omnia in deterius trahere. [OBS., these phrases with the comparative are used where we should use the positive: “to put a good, bad, etc., construction on anything”]. to put a construction on anything that it was not intended to have, aliter aliquid, ac dictum erat, accipere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for construction?
- The usual Latin words for “construction” are aedificātiō, exaedificātiō, exstrūctiō; also compositiō, cōnstrūctiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.