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

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Contents (2 entries · 11 senses)
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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• construction:
    1. I. The act of constructing: fabrĭcātio, constructio: Cic. (Or by ger. of verbs = to construct: q. v.)
    2. II. The form or plan of what is constructed:
      1. 1. fabrĭcātio: to see through or examine the whole c. of man, totam hominis f. perspicere, Cic.
      2. 2. structūra: the c. of the walls, parietum s., Caes.: reticulated (net-like) c., s. reticulata, Plin.: Vitr.
      3. 3. fĭgūra, forma: v. form, shape (cf. Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 133).
      4. 4. conformātio: the c. of a theatre, c. theatri, Vitr.
    3. III. In grammar: constructio (i. e. according to the rules of Syntax): Prisc.: M. L.
    4. IV. Sense, meaning:
      1. 1. interprĕtātio: to put now one c. (upon a thing), now another, huc illuc trahere interpretationem, Tac. H. 3, 3: (unfair) c.s of conduct by informers, interpretationes delatorum, Tac.: an unfavourable c. was put upon greatness, sinistra erga eminentes int., Tac. Agr. 5.
      2. 2. sensus, ūs; sententia: v. sense, meaning.
      3. 3. pars, partis, f. (in certain phrases): to put the more favourable, the best, c. on anything, aliquid mitiorem in partem interpretari, in optimam partem accipere, Cic. Phr.: to put a certain c. on anything, interpretari, accipere: v. supr.: you put a right c. upon (this), recte accipis, Ter.
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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• 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.