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costrutto

construct

noun koh-STROOT-toh Rare
Communication Language

Origin: From Latin constructus, past participle of construere (to build).

Also means

structure

Usage Note

Costrutto in modern Italian is primarily used in linguistics and logic to mean a syntactic or conceptual construct (costrutto sintattico, syntactic structure). Colloquially, non capire il costrutto means to miss the point entirely. It is more abstract than costruzione (physical building or construction).

Examples

"Questo è un costrutto grammaticale complesso."

Natural Translation

This is a complex grammatical construct.

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