Where does “manufacturing” come from?
Manufacturing derives from English manufacture, from Middle French manufacture, from Italian manufactura, from Latin manufactus (made by hand), from Latin manus (hand), from Proto-Indo-European man-.
manufacturing (English): The transformation of raw materials into finished...
Definitions
- The transformation of raw materials into finished...
Ancestry of “manufacturing”, 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 | — |