structūra (noun F) : struo
* A fitting together, adaptation, adjustment.
* Lit.
* In gen. (post-Aug. and very rare): ossa in manu oblonga omnia et triangula, structurā quādam inter se conectuntur,Cels. 8, 1 med.: membranarum,Plin. 13, 19, 34, § 112: togae,Macr. S. 2, 9.
* Trop., of language, an arrangement, order, structure (in Cic. only as a figure of speech, with quasi or quaedam; later in gen.): verborum quasi structura,Cic. Brut. 8, 33: quasi structura quaedam,id. Or. 44, 149: et verborum est structura quaedam,id. Opt. Gen. 2, 5: proprietates verborum exigit, et structuram et argumentationes,Sen. Ep. 89, 9: mei carminis,Ov. P. 4, 13, 4; Quint. 1, 10, 23; 8, 5, 27; 8, 6, 67; 9, 4, 45; Tac. Or. 22 fin.
* In abstr. (class.): parietum, the mode of building, construction, * Caes. B. C. 2, 9; cf.: structurae antiquae genus,Liv. 21, 11; and: reticulata structura,Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 172: (silex) globosus sed structurae infidelis,for building,id. 36, 22, 49, § 169: in structurā saxorum rudium,Quint. 9, 4, 27.—Plur.: in structuris lapidum impolitorum,Quint. 8, 6, 63.
* In concr., a building, erection, edifice, structure, Front. Aquaed. 123; Vitr. 5, 12: subterraneae,Plin. 36, 22, 50, § 170: aerariae structurae,i. e. mining works, mines,Caes. B. G. 3, 21 fin. (al. structuraeque).