Manufacture

Etymology

The Modern English word manufacture is likely derived from the Middle Frenchmanufacture ("process of making") which itself originates from the Classical Latinmanū ("hand") and the Middle French facture ("making"). Alternatively, the English word may have been independently formed from the earlier English manufacture ("made by human hands") and fracture. Its earliest usage in the English language was recorded in the mid-16th century to refer to the making of products by hand.