reconstrucción

/rekonstɾuɡˈθjon/ · B2 · noun · f

reconstruction

🏗️🧱 re- (again) + construcción (building): building something again

Break it into re- meaning again and construcción meaning building, from Latin construere, to pile up together. Reconstrucción is literally a second round of construction, like the English cognate reconstruction.

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