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Construction comes from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruō ‘to heap up, build’, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*strew-¹‘to strew’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*stréweti¹reconstructed
3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*strowō¹‘to pile up’reconstructed
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEstruō²‘pile up’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnstruō³as cōnstruere‘to heap’
6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcōnstructiō³‘the act of putting’
7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400construction³
8. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500construccioun³
9. Englishearliest quotation 1913construction³

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin struo
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin construo
3. ³ Wiktionary, English construction
4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1913, Robert Barr: “Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of…”.