Structure
late Middle English (denoting the process of building): from Old French, or from Latin structura, from struere ‘to build’. The verb is rarely found before the 20th century.
wiktionary
From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra(“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus(“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
etymonline
structure (n.)
mid-15c., "action or process of building or construction;" 1610s, "that which is constructed, a building or edifice;" from Latin structura "a fitting together, adjustment; a building, mode of building;" figuratively, "arrangement, order," from structus, past participle of struere "to pile, place together, heap up; build, assemble, arrange, make by joining together," related to strues "heap," from PIE *streu-, extended form of root *stere- "to spread."
structure (v.)
"put together systematically," by 1855 (occasional use from late 16c.), from structure (n.). Related: Structured; structuring.
