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Where does “infrastructure” come from?

infrastructure (French) comes from French infra-, from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

infrastructure (French): infrastructure

Definitions

  1. infrastructure

Ancestry of “infrastructure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchinfra-infra-
2Latininfrabelow
3Latinīnferā—
4Frenchinférerto infer
5Latinīnferō—
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “infrastructure”

  • infrastructure
  • infrastructural
  • cyberinfrastructure
  • infrastructurally
  • infrastructured
  • noninfrastructure
  • noninfrastructural
  • e-infrastructure
  • infrastructuralist
  • インフラストラクチャー
  • infrastruktúra
  • infrastruktúránk
  • infrastruktúrák
  • infrastruktur
  • imprastruktura
  • imprastraktura
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