superstruct

To build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).

Verb

  1. To build over or upon (another structure); to erect upon (a foundation).
    • This is the only proper basis on which to superstruct first innocency and then virtue. - 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait,...

Origin

Latin superstrūctus, past participle of superstruō (“to build upon”); super (“over”) + struō (“to build”). See super- and structure.

Forms

superstructs superstructing superstructed