manufacture

Where it comes from

Manufacture ordinarily means to make goods, especially systematically or on an industrial scale. Manufacture came from French manufacture and Medieval Latin manufactura. Its parts trace to Latin manu, by hand, from manus, hand, and factura, a making, from facere, to make or do. The noun initially meant making by hand or something so made.

How the meaning developed

It soon broadened to organized production from raw materials and then comfortably included machinery, leaving a word built from hand as the standard term for mechanized industry.