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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• construct:
      1. 1. fabrĭcor and fabrĭco, 1 (as dep. in Cic., Tac., etc.: as v. act. chiefly in poets and late writers): i. e. to make with skill, esp. of a mechanical kind: to make or c. man, hominem fingere vel fabricari, Cic. Acad. 2, 27, 87 (see the passage): to c. bridges, ladders, pontes, scalas f., Tac.: to c. a raft, ratem fabricare, Phaedr.: to c. words, i. e. a speech, verba fabricare, Quint.
      2. 2. struo, construo, instruo, exstruo, xi, ctum, 3: v. to build, form, arrange. Join: construere atque aedificare, Cic.
      3. 3. făcio, fēci, factum, 3: to c. a bridge, pontem f., Caes.: v. to build, make.
      4. 4. constĭtuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (of that which has a definite plan: so also instituo): to c. siege-towers, turres c., Caes.: to c. an equilateral triangle, triangulum aequis lateribus c., Quint.: to c. an argument (i. e. to arrange its parts), ratiocinationem c., Quint. 5, 14, 12.
      5. 5. contexo, ui, xtum, 3: v. to frame. Phr.: to c. a rampart from the camp to the sea, vallum ex castris ad mare ducere, Caes. (cf. Eng. to carry a wall). In gram.: *construo, jungo.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• CONSTRUCT
aedificare (the proper word; e.g., ships, towns, etc.): struere: construere (e.g., a building, vessel, etc.). (the words are found in this connection and order), construere atque aedificare: exstruere (erect; e.g., a tower): condere (to found; e.g., a town): excitare (erect, e.g., a monument, tower, etc.): educere (to erect a lofty building; e.g., pyramides): facere (to make, build in general): architectari (to construct according to the rules of art; e.g., a temple, etc.): praestruere alicui rei (before any object): astruere, adjungere aliquid alicui rei (near or joining any object): to construct close together; e.g., houses, domos continuare (Sall., Cat., 20, 9, Herzog): all around, circum struere: of hewn stone, saxo quadrato construere: to construct a house, exstruere or aedificare domum: to construct a bridge over a river, pontem in flumine (not in flumen) facere, efficere, injicere: to construct fortifications, munimenta excitare: to construct (describe) on a given line an equilateral triangle, in data, linea triangulum aequis lateribus constituere (Quint., 1, 10, 3). GRAMM., COMPONERE.