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Latin
Etymology
Probably from indu (“in, within”), archaic variation of in, + struō (“build”).[1]
Sometimes connected to Old High German ustrī (“industry”), Old English and-ūstrian (“to hate, detest”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
industrius (feminine industria, neuter industrium, comparative industrior or industriior); first/second-declension adjective
- active, industrious, assiduous, diligent
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “industrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “industrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- industrius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- industrius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189; 592