Other forms: architectures
Architecture is the study of designing buildings. Study architecture, modern architecture, Gothic architecture.
It is both the practice and the finished body of work, so a city has architecture as well as architects. Computing borrowed the word for the shape of a system, and that use is now as common as the original. The Greek means chief builder.
1nounsubjectThe art and study of designing buildings.
“He studied architecture for seven years before he designed his first house.”
2nounoverallThe overall shape of a system.
“The engineers spent weeks planning the architecture of the new computer system.”
architecture is a discipline, or a design.
Latin architectura comes from Greek architekton, chief builder — arkhi, chief, plus tekton, a builder.
Proto-Indo-European
*tetḱ-
French
architecture
English, today
architecture
Borrowed from French architecture. Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (“architect”) literally “arch builder, ext. chief builder, principal craftsman”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA