tectonic

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

tectónico

Sinónimos

architectonic

architectural

structural

continental

Traducciones

tectonique

tektonisch

tectònic

τεκτονικός

tettonico

tektonik

architectonique

arquitetônico

arkitektonik

architektonisch

architectural

tectonico

tectônico

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).