tectonic

Significat (Anglès)

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
2. (not-comparable) Structural.
3. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
4. (figuratively, not-comparable) Momentous, utter, vast.

Conceptes

tectònic

Sinònims

architectonic

architectural

structural

continental

Traduccions

tectonique

tektonisch

tectónico

tettonico

τεκτονικός

architectonique

arquitetônico

tektonik

arkitektonik

architektonisch

architectural

tectonico

tectônico

Etimologia (Anglès)

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) + -ic (“pertaining to”).