Substruo, substruis, substruxi, substructum, sabstrúere. Plaut.To vnderpin: to builde vnder: to make a foundation vnder.Capitolium saxo quadrato substructum est.Liu.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sub-strŭo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a., to build beneath, to underbuild, lay; lit.: fundamentum, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 40: intervalla montium, Vitr. 8, 7 med.; cf.: intervalla substructis canalibus junguntur, Plin. 33, 4, 21, 74: locus substructus, Varr. L. L. 5, 155 Müll.: Capitolium saxo quadrato, Liv. 6, 4: substruendo iter facere, Dig. 8, 1, 10: vias glareā, i. e.
to lay
,
to pave
, Liv. 41, 27.—Absol.: non alte substruitur, thefoundation is not laid deeply, Vitr. 8, 6, 5. —P. a. as subst.: substructum, i, n., = substructio, Vitr. 8, 7 med.