Latin

Verb

cōnstituō ‎(present infinitive cōnstituere, perfect active cōnstituī, supine cōnstitūtum); third conjugation

1. I set up, establish, confirm
2. (with infinitive) I decide, resolve.

Inflection

Derived terms

• cōnstitūtiō
• cōnstitūtum
• cōnstitūtus

Related terms

• cōnstitūtiōnārius
• cōnstitūtōrius

Descendants

References

• constituo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• constituo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “constituo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: finem imponere, afferre, constituere alicui rei
    
  • to set up a statue in some one's honour: statuam alicui ponere, constituere
    
  • to determine the nature and constitution of the subject under discussion: constituere, quid et quale sit, de quo disputetur
    
  • to set a limit to a thing: modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei or alicuius rei
    
  • to impose fixed limitations: fines certos terminosque constituere
    
  • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    
  • to fix a price for a thing: pretium alicui rei statuere, constituere (Att. 13. 22)
    
  • to build, found a city: oppidum constituere, condere
    
  • to give the state a constitution: rem publicam constituere
    
  • to make laws (of a legislator): leges scribere, facere, condere, constituere (not dare)
    
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
  • to found a colony: coloniam constituere (Leg. Agr. 1. 5. 16)
    
  • to ordain as punishment that..: hanc poenam constituere in aliquem, ut...
    
  • to decree the penalty of death: supplicium alicui decernere, in aliquem constituere
    
  • to fix a day for the engagement: diem pugnae constituere (B. G. 3. 24)
    
  • to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
    
  • to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
    

Portuguese

Verb

constituo

1. first-person singular present indicative of constituir