Where does “manufactory” come from?
Manufactory comes from Latin manufactus, past participle of manu facere (to make by hand), from manus (hand) and facere (to make), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European man-.
manufactory (English): A manufacturing process; a particular industry or...
Definitions
- A manufacturing process; a particular industry or...
Ancestry of “manufactory”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | manūfactus | hand-made |
| 2 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |