'Structure' is Latin for 'a piling up' — from 'struere' (to build). Root of 'construct' and 'destruct.'
The arrangement of and relations between the parts of something complex; a building or other object constructed from several parts.
From Latin 'strūctūra' (a fitting together, building, an arrangement), from 'strūctus,' the past participle of 'struere' (to pile up, to arrange, to build). The PIE root is *strew- (to spread, to strew, to scatter and thus lay out). This root is ancient and productive: it gave Latin 'sternere' (to spread out, to lay flat), English 'strew,' and 'street' (originally a Roman
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