
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div class="_OXf" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: 20px; margin: 2px -16px 9px; padding: 0px 16px 11px;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=manufacture" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 21px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">manufacture - Online Etymology Dictionary</font></a></h3><div class="f kv _SWb _fof" style="margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><cite class="_Rm bc" style="font-style: normal; max-width: 95%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.etymonline.com">www.etymonline.com</a> › term=manufacture</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="line-height: 20px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="st" data-hveid="56" style="line-height: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1560s, "something made by hand," from Middle French manufacture, from Medieval Latin *manufactura (source of Italian manifattura, Spanish manufactura), from Latin manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + factura "a working," from past participle stem of facere "to perform" (see factitious).</span></div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Luis O. Reyes</div></body></html>