Where does “industrial” come from?
Industrial comes from French industriel, from Latin industria meaning diligence or hard work, with the suffix -alis, derived from the preposition in and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European en.
industrial (English): Of or relating to industry, notably...
Definitions
- Of or relating to industry, notably...
Ancestry of “industrial”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | industriel | industrial; industrialist; industry |
| 2 | French | -iel | Suffix used to form adjectives. Compare with... |
| 3 | French | -el | To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
| 4 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “industrial”
- industrialised
- industrialism
- industrially
- industrialist
- postindustrial
- preindustrial
- nonindustrial
- agroindustrial
- industrialise
- protoindustrial
- technoindustrial
- antiindustrial
- unindustrialised
- industrialiser
- proindustrial
- nonindustrially
- preindustrially
- reindustrialise
- deindustrialise
- military-industrial complex
- industrial espionage
- microindustrial
- multiindustrial
- anti-industrial