Where does “infrastructure” come from?
Infrastructure comes from French infrastructure, derived from French structure and Latin infra meaning "below," combined with Latin struo meaning "to build," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ster-.
infrastructure (English): An underlying base or foundation especially for...
Definitions
- An underlying base or foundation especially for...
Ancestry of “infrastructure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | infrastructure | infrastructure an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system |
| 2 | French | infra- | infra |
| 3 | Latin | infra | below |
| 4 | Latin | īnferā | — |
| 5 | French | inférer | to infer |
| 6 | Latin | īnferō | to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |