Translation
industry
Word origin
From Latin industria, 'diligence, hard work', which is what the word meant in English too until the eighteenth century handed it to factories. Esperanto borrowed the international form whole.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- industria
- English cognates
- industry, industrious
Examples
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The war destroyed the country's entire industry.
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Many people work in the town's industry.
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Industry needs more energy than the countryside does.
A single root, and worth saying so, because the shape invites a wrong reading. is not indu- plus anything: Esperanto's chief suffix is -- (o, a mayor; o, a captain), there is no -str- affix at all, and no indu root for it to hang off. The word came in one piece from Latin, exactly as and did. Break it and you get nothing.
The adjective is industria, and note that it means industrial, not industrious: for the hard-working sense Esperanto reaches for diligenta or a. o is an industrialist, and i is to industrialise, which is the -ig- suffix doing what it always does.
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