BUILD Copy link • BUILDaedificare (houses, ships, towns, etc.): strucre, construere, exstruere, moliri: condero (to found): excitare, educere (carry up, erect): architectari (by rules of art): facere. To build before, praestruere. To build to, astruere, adjungere aliquid alicui rei: around, circum struere. To build up a place (cover it with buildings), locum coaedificare, aedificare, inaediticare. To build on the sand, alicujus rei fundamenta tamquam in aqua ponere (Cic., De Finibus, 2, 22, 72): to build a row or rows of houses, domos continuare: to build with freestone, saxo quadrato construere: on another man’s ground, aedificium in alieno exstruere. A wellbuilt man, perhaps homo forma honesta et liberali. Bees build their cells, apes fingunt favos. To build castles in the air, somnia sibi fingere (Vid: Lucr., 1, 104): to build anybody out, alicujus luminibus obstruere or officere (i. e., place an obstacle before his windows): to build a bridge over a river, pontem in fluvio (or flumine) facere, in flumine efficere; amnem ponte jungere; pontem flumini imponere or injicere: over a marsh, paludem pontibus consternere: to build ships, naves sedificare. INTR., aedificare, domum or domos aedificare: (generally) to construct, construere, fingere, fabricare, facere. To build upon (figuratively), fidere, confidere alicui; confidere, nitor aliqua re.