constructible
English
adj
Definitions
- Of a land, suitable or allowable for constructing a building on.
- Of a building or other thing, capable of being constructed.
- (of a regular polygon) That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
- (of a complex number) Such that the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
Etymology
Suffix from English construct root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coconstruct English
- construct English
- constructable English
- constructest English
- constructeth English
- constructibility English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- deconstruct English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructively English
- destructiveness English
- destructivity English
- foreconstruct English
- inconstructible English
- misconstruct English
- nanoconstruct English
- obstruct English
- overconstruct English
- preconstruct English
- reconstruct English
- subconstruct English
- unconstruct English
- unconstructible English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- destruct
- obstruct
- construct
- deconstruct
- unconstruct
- reconstruct
- coconstruct
- misconstruct
- constructeth
- subconstruct
- destructible
- constructest
- preconstruct
- constructive
- constructable
- destructively
- destructivity
- nanoconstruct
- overconstruct
- foreconstruct
- constructional
- constructivism
- constructivist
- constructionism
- destructiveness
- unconstructible
- inconstructible
- constructibility