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
- Of, relating to or originating in infrastructure
Ancestry of “infrastructural”, step by step
infrastructural traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English infrastructure
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | infrastructure | An underlying base or foundation especially for... |
| 2 | French | infrastructure | infrastructure an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system |
| 3 | French | infra- | infra |
| 4 | Latin | infra | below |
| 5 | Latin | īnferā | — |
| 6 | French | inférer | to infer |
| 7 | Latin | īnferō | to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Romanian infrastructură
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | infrastructură | infrastructure |