English
extruct
Extruct comes from Latin extructus, and goes back to exstruere ‘to build up’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexstruere‘to build up’next step skipped: Latin extruō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextructus
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1763extruct
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexstruere‘to build up’next step skipped: Latin extruō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextructus
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1763extruct
Earliest quotation: a. 1763, John Byrom, Critical Remarks in English and Latin: “These high extructed Spires he writ / That mortal…”
A compound of ex ‘out’ + struere ‘to build’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‘out’
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex ‘out’
Proto-Indo-European *strew- ‘to strew, to spread out’
Proto-Indo-European *stréweti
Proto-Italic *strowō ‘to pile up’
Latin struō ‘to build’
Every English word from Latin exstruere
Today it means
verb To construct.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exstruere / extruct