'aluminum-constructed' originates from the combination of the noun 'aluminum' (from New Latin 'alumen'), where 'alumen' meant 'bitter salt', and the past participle 'constructed' (from Latin 'construere'), where 'construere' meant 'to heap up or build'.

'aluminum' changed from the New Latin word 'alumen' and, through 19th-century coinage and variation ('aluminium' in British usage and 'aluminum' in American usage), became the modern English 'aluminum'. 'Constructed' comes from Old French 'construire' and Latin 'construere', eventually yielding the English 'construct' and its past participle 'constructed'.

Initially, 'alumen' referred to a chemical substance ('bitter salt') and 'construere' meant 'to pile up or build'; over time the noun 'aluminum' came to name the metal and the compound 'aluminum-constructed' now means 'made of or built with aluminum'.