architectural

What it means

1. Pertaining to architecture.

   Wheelchair users are restricted entry into many structures and public facilities by architectural barriers.

   1986 February 8, Warren Blumenfeld, “Gay & Lesbian Print Disabled: The Issue is Access”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 9

   1 more example

   The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

   1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

2. Resembling architecture in style; seeming to have been designed (by an architect).

In a sentence

The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂er-der.?
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ergʰ-der.?
3. Ancient Greekἄρχω (árkhō)
4. Ancient Greekἀρχι- (arkhi-)
5. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
6. Proto-Indo-European*tetḱ-
7. Proto-Indo-European*tétḱō
8. Proto-Hellenic*téktōn
9. Ancient Greekτέκτων (téktōn)
10. Ancient Greekἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn)
11. Latinarchitectus
12. Latinarchitectūra
13. Frencharchitecture
14. Englisharchitecture
15. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
16. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
17. Englisharchitectural

From architecture + -al.