Where does “manufacture” come from?
manufacture (Middle French) comes from Italian manufactura, from Medieval Latin manufactura, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
manufacture (Middle French): creation; manufacture
Definitions
- creation; manufacture
Ancestry of “manufacture”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | manufactura | — |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | manufactura | — |
| 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 | — |
Words derived from “manufacture”
- manufacturing
- manufacture
- manufacturer
- Manu
- manufacturability
- nonmanufacturing
- remanufacture
- manufacturable
- micromanufacturing
- nanomanufacturing
- biomanufacturing
- premanufacture
- manufactural
- nonmanufacturer
- demanufacture
- manufacturess
- semimanufacture
- manufacturage
- biomanufacture
- -facture
- comanufacture
- micromanufacture
- mismanufacture
- nanomanufacture