Etymology

massify

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Today it means: To become, or cause to become, oriented toward mass production, mass consumption, and high throughput rather than individuality. Full definition →

Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← English mass
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  1. Englishmass
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Proto-Italic*θakos
  4. English todaymassify

From mass + -ify.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.