"industry" in seven languages
Meaningindustry
Spanish
industria
/inˈdustɾja/
fem.learned
French
industrie
/ɛ̃dystʁi/
fem.learned
Italian
industria
/inˈdustrja/
fem.learned
Portuguese
indústria
/ĩˈdustɾjɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
industrie
/indusˈtrie/
fem.learned
Catalan
indústria
/inˈdustɾiə/
fem.learned
English
industry
/ˈɪndəstɹi/
from Latin/French · Old French industrie, from Latin industria
English → ItalianindustryindustriaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
INDUSTRIAM‘diligence, hard work’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
In Latin INDUSTRIA was a quality, diligence, and English industrious still means that. The sense 'manufacturing' came much later, in all four at once.
English relatives: industrious, industrial
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In a sentence
- esEl turismo es una industria importante.
- frLe tourisme est une industrie importante.
- itIl turismo è un'industria importante.
- ptO turismo é uma indústria importante.
- roTurismul este o industrie importantă.
- caEl turisme és una indústria important.
- enTourism is an important industry.
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