construct (konstrukt)

[L. construct us, pp.: see the verb.] In gram., constituting or expre ing connection as governing substantive with the substantive governed. state, it Hebraedage Construct of a noun, generally characterized by shortened or changed vowels, used before another noun which in Indo-European languages would be in the genitive case, or preceded by may therefore be translated by of appended to the governing noun, and the distinctive peculiarity, as compared with the family of languages last named, is that it is the governing and not the governed noun which is altered in form. Bel's consort was named Belit (for belat III R. 7, col. I 3, on account of the preceding e), construct state of beltu, Amer. Jour. Philol ., VIII. 269.