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Construct

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to build or assemble something, especially a structure or system
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Stage 1 of 2
construere
Latin · ancient
"to build together"
to build together, from com- (together) and struere (to build)
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Stage 2 of 2
construct
English · 1600s
"to build or assemble something"
settled as the English word for building or assembling something
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