Where does “construction” come from?
Construction derives from Old French construction, from Latin constructio, the noun form of construere meaning "to build together," from the prefix com- meaning "with" or "together."
construction (English): The process of constructing; Anything that has...
Definitions
- The process of constructing; Anything that has...
Ancestry of “construction”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | construction | — |
| 2 | Old French | construction | — |
| 3 | Latin | cōnstructiō | The act of putting, placing or joining together |
| 4 | Latin | cōnstruō | to heap, bring, collect or gather together |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 6 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 7 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
Words derived from “construction”
- reconstruction
- constructionist
- constructional
- constructionism
- misconstruction
- reconstructionist
- preconstruction
- postconstruction
- coconstruction
- reconstructionism
- nonconstruction
- constructionally
- autoconstruction
- visuoconstructional
- visuoconstruction
- reconstructional
- midconstruction
- bioconstruction
- constructionistic
- ba construction
- construction barrel
- constructioner
- malconstruction
- megaconstruction