substructio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *upó

Proto-Italic *supo

Latin sub

Latin sub-

Proto-Indo-European *ster-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *strew-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréweti

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struo

Latin substruō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin substrūctiō

From substruō + -tiō.

Noun

substrūctiō f (genitive substrūctiōnis); third declension

1. foundation (of a building)
2. substructure

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	substrūctiō	substrūctiōnēs
genitive	substrūctiōnis	substrūctiōnum
dative	substrūctiōnī	substrūctiōnibus
accusative	substrūctiōnem	substrūctiōnēs
ablative	substrūctiōne	substrūctiōnibus
vocative	substrūctiō	substrūctiōnēs

Descendants

• → English: substruction
• → French: substruction
• → Italian: sostruzione (semi-learned)

References

• “substructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “substructio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “substructio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• substructio in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016