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Where does “usinabilité” come from?

usinabilité (French) comes from French usinable, from French usiner, from French usine, from Latin officīna, from Latin opificium, from Latin opifex, from Latin Ops, from Latin oscen.

usinabilité (French): machinability

Definitions

  1. machinability

Ancestry of “usinabilité”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchusinablemachinable
2Frenchusinerto machine; to manufacture
3Frenchusinefactory; mill; works
4Latinofficīna—
5Latinopificiumwork
6LatinopifexSomeone who does work ; worker, maker, framer,...
7LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
8Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
9Latinopscen—
10Latinob-towards; against
11Latinobolusobolus
12Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...
13Ancient Greekὀβελόςa spit, rod; a horizontal line
14Ancient Greekβέλοςmissile, arrow, dart; weapon; something quickly...
15Proto-Indo-EuropeangʷélHos—
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