The word construction hasn’t strayed far from its early language roots. At first, the word came from the Latin ‘construere’ which meant to pile up together, accumulate or erect. The word construere was first used in terms of understanding the arragment of words in translation, and we can see that in today’s English word, construe, which means to understand something from its parts. From the early 15th century, the word ‘construccioun’ was being used to describe building something.
The Origin of the Word Construction
