English
manufact
Manufact comes from Latin manufactus ‘hand-made’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanufactus‘hand-made’
- Englishearliest quotation 1690manufact
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmanufactus‘hand-made’
- Englishearliest quotation 1690manufact
Earliest quotation: 1690, Thomas d'Urfey, Canto III: “But more particulary that, / Where Lady was to…”
Every English word from Latin manufactus
Today it means
noun A manufactured (manmade) object.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin manufactus / manufact