The story
- Latin · borrowed fromcōnstrūctiō“[grammatical] construction”
- English todayconstructio ad sensum
From modern Latin cōnstrūctiō (“[grammatical] construction”) + ad (“toward, [according] to”) + sēnsum (accusative singular of sēnsus, abstractly “sense”, “notion”, “signification”): "grammatical construction according to [the] sense".
Words from the same roots
Latincōnstrūctiō all →
constructionpraegnans constructio
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.