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Where does “infrastructural” come from?

Infrastructural comes from English infrastructure, derived from French infrastructure, which combines Latin infra meaning below with Latin struo meaning to build, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ster- meaning to spread or extend.

infrastructural (English): Of, relating to or originating in infrastructure

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to or originating in infrastructure

Ancestry of “infrastructural”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishinfrastructureAn underlying base or foundation especially for...
2Frenchinfrastructureinfrastructure
3Frenchinfra-infra-
4Latininfrabelow
5Latinīnferā—
6Frenchinférerto infer
7Latinīnferō—
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “infrastructural”

  • infrastructurally
  • noninfrastructural
  • infrastructuralist
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