English → Latin
“manufacture” in Latin
opificiumworkarsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagemfaciōto do (particularly as a specific instance or occasion of doing); to make, construct, fashion, frame, build, erect; to mfabricorto build, construct, fashion, forge, shapecōnficiōto prepare, accomplish, complete, execute; settle, close a bargain; traverse; to produce, cause, bring about, effect, setegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protectcelebercontaining a multitude, numerous, frequent; crowded, populous; honored by a great assembly, famous, celebrated, renownedfrequēnscrowded, crammed, packed; filled with a multitude, filled, full, crowded, populous; frequent, repeated
The English word manufacture itself goes back to Latin manus, through manūfactūra.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
manufacture s.
Process of manufacturing, opificium.
A thing made by hand, opus, quod manus efficit; opus manu, arte, factum; artis opus.
manufacture v.
manu facere aliquid; fabricari; conficere; texere: a manufacturing town, urbs opificiorum studiosa; urbs opificibus, artificibus florens, celebris, frequens; urbs officinis nobilis (noted for manufactories): a piece of goods has its name from the place of manufacture, nomen alicui rei datum est a confecturae loco.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for manufacture?
- The usual Latin words for “manufacture” are opificium, ars, faciō; also fabricor, cōnficiō, tegō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.