'costruzione' originates from Italian, specifically from the Latin noun 'constructio' and the verb 'construere' ('con-' meaning 'together' and 'struere' meaning 'to pile up, build').

'costruzione' changed from Latin 'constructio' through Vulgar Latin/Medieval Latin and Old Italian forms and eventually became the modern Italian word 'costruzione'.

Initially it referred to the action of building or the result of building in Latin; over time it retained this core meaning and developed the same uses in modern Italian (including the grammatical sense 'construction').