Etymology

manufacture

man·u·fac·ture
M3A1N1U1F4A1C3T1U1R1E1

Today it means: The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale. Full definition →

Middle French manufacture ← Medieval Latin manūfactūra
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived frommanūfactūra“a making by hand”
  2. Middle French · derived frommanufacture
  3. English todaymanufacture

From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“to do, make”). Compare manual, facture.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.