The story
- Latin · derived fromfabrica“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”
- French · borrowed fromfabrique
- English todayfabric
Borrowed from French fabrique, from Latin fabrica (“a workshop, art, trade, product of art, structure, fabric”), from faber (“artisan, workman”). Doublet of fabrica, borrowed from Latin, and forge, borrowed from Old French.
Words from the same roots
Latinfabrica all →
forgefabrica
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.