Etymology

infrastructure

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Today it means: An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. Full definition →

First used 1887French infrastructure
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The story

  1. French · borrowed frominfrastructure
  2. English todayinfrastructure

Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- + structure.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1887 An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.