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architectura

1. third-person singular past historic of architecturer

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architectura (plural architecturas)

1. architecture

From architectus (“architect, designer”) +‎ -tūra, the former of which is a remodeling of Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn) under influence of tegō. The "Latinization" of the second component facilitated the suffixion of -tūra, overriding the originally stem-immanent t.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.kʰi.tekˈtuː.ra/, [ärkʰɪt̪ɛkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ki.tekˈtu.ra/, [ärkit̪ekˈt̪uːrä]

architectūra f (genitive architectūrae); first declension

1. architecture

   Synonym: architectonia

First-declension noun.

• “architectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “architectura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• architectura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “architectura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “architectura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

architectura f (plural architecturas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of arquitetura.