tectonic

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

tectonique

architectonique

architectural

Synonymes

architectonic

architectural

structural

continental

Traductions

tectónico

tektonisch

tettonico

τεκτονικός

tectònic

arquitetônico

tektonik

arkitektonik

architektonisch

tectonico

tectônico

tectónico

inşaat sanatı

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).