manufacture
Meaningmaking by hand
Common meaning: to make goods in large numbers, often by machine
- manthe handLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1111 · scan
- factto make; to cause to happenLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 716 · scan
- urenoun ending: result or process
‘the hand’ + ‘to make’ → manufacture
Journey through time
- man — Latin manus, -ūs “the hand” (path traced)
- fact — Latin faciō, fēcī, factum “to make; to cause to happen” (path traced)
Parts join in French as manufacture.
- Latinmanus, -ūs + faciō, fēcī, factum‘the hand + to make’
- Frenchmanufacture
- Englishmanufacture‘to make goods in large numbers, often by machine’ · today
man also in: manuscriptmicromanage
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin manus ‘the hand’ + Latin faciō ‘to make; to cause to happen’.
Did you know (Latin facere, "make,…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry faciō, p. 716 · dictionary scan
Did you know (Latin manus, the…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry manus, p. 1111 · dictionary scan
Roots
- faciō, fēcī, factum Latin “to make; to cause to happen”
- manus, -ūs Latin “the hand”
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