뜻

1. 설치하다, 꾸리다, 설립하다
2. 결정하다, 결의하다 (부정사와 함께)

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

예문

• Qui tamen a munitione oppidi longius non audebant procedere, in quo sibi prope murum adversarii constituebant. (CAESAR, INCERTI AVCTORIS DE BELLO HISPANIENSI 29:10)

  (카이사르, 히스파니아 전기 29:10)

• cum pluribus experti erant et probaverant integram et solidam naturam iocinerum ex aqua et pabulo, ibi constituebant munitiones; (Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura, LIBER PRIMUS, chapter 4 5:34)

  (비트루비우스 폴리오, 건축술에 관하여, , 4장 5:34)

• Pixides ab aequalibus pedum undecim filis pendentes constituebant Pendula, quoad pondus, figuram & aeris resistentia omnino paria: (Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, DE MUNDI SYSTEMATE LIBER TERTIUS., Prop. 1~10 21:6)

  (아이작 뉴턴, 자연철학의 수학적 원리, 세상의 체계에 대하여 3권, 제안 1~10 21:6)

• Qui cogitaverunt mala in corde tota die constituebant proelia. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Psalmorum, 140 140:3)

  저들은 마음속으로 악을 꾀하고 날마다 싸움을 일으킵니다. (불가타 성경, 시편, 140장 140:3)

• Dies saepius et loca praeliandi constituebant, et aequo Marte experiebantur. (FRANCIS BACON, SERMONES FIDELES SIVE INTERIORA RERUM, LVI. [ = English LVIII] DE VICISSITUDINE RERUM 9:4)

  (, , 9:4)

유의어 사전

1. Destinare and obstinare denote forming a resolution as a psychological, whereas decernere and statuere as a political, act. 2. Destinare means to form a decided resolution, by which a thing is set at rest; obstinare, to form an unalterable resolution, whereby a man perseveres with obstinacy and doggedness. 3. Decernere denotes the final result of a formal consultation, or, at least, of a deliberation approaching the nature and seriousness of a collegial discussion; statuere, to settle the termination of an uncertain state, and constituere is the word employed, if the subject or object of the transaction is a multitude. Cic. Fr. Tull. Hoc judicium sic expectatur, ut non unæ rei statui, sed omnibus constitui putetur. (iv. 178.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein