- constitutive (of something)
forming a part, often an essential part, of something 組成部分的；本質的；基本的 Memory is constitutive of identity. 記憶是身份的一個重要構成部分。 Poverty is a constitutive element of a particular form of economic growth. 貧窮是特定經濟發展模式的組成部分。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryConstitutive is used with these nouns:- element
having the power to establish or give organized existence to something 組成部分的；本質的；基本的 Democracy depends on the rule of law for its constitutive procedures. 民主的構成程序依賴於法治。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin constitutivus, from constitut- ‘established’, from the verb constituere, from con- ‘together’ + statuere ‘set up’.