Where does “manufacturer” come from?
Manufacturer derives from Middle French manufacturier, from Italian manufactura, from Latin manusfactura, combining manus meaning hand with factura meaning making or working.
manufacturer (English): A person or company that manufactures
Definitions
- A person or company that manufactures
Ancestry of “manufacturer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | manufacture | The action or process of making goods... |
| 2 | Middle French | manufacture | creation; manufacture |
| 3 | Italian | manufactura | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | manufactura | — |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |