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Meaning of structura | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. the practice or process of building, construction
    abstract, declension-1
  2. the method, form, structure or arrangement of anything
    also, declension-1
  3. masonry, brickwork; cement (the result of application of a certain construction technique)
    concrete, declension-1

Examples

“strūctūrārum genera sunt haec: rēticulātum, quō nunc omnēs ūtuntur, et antīquum, quod incertum dīcitur”

the construction techniques are as follows: the diamond-shaped ("reticulated") type, which is what everyone uses nowadays, and the old type, which is called "irregular"

“(ēloquentia) […] sed et verbōrum est strūctura quaedam”

but it (eloquence) is also a kind of building technique

“propriētātēs verbōrum exigit et strūctūram et argūmentātiōnēs”

it (rational philosophy) works out the proper meanings of words, their arrangement and their rhetorical force

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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