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Manufacture

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to make goods on a large scale using machinery
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Stage 1 of 2
manus
Latin · ancient
"hand"
hand, combined with facere (to make)
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Stage 2 of 2
manufacture
English · 1560s
"to make goods, especially on a large scale"
settled as the English word for making goods, originally by hand
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