Industrialis

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Relating to or characteristic of industry; concerning the economic activity of manufacturing goods or producing materials; connected to factories or industrial processes
2. Pertaining to the aspect of society or economy focused on large-scale production or mechanized manufacturing; associated with industrial enterprises or industrialization
3. Describing matters involving the creation of products in factories; linked to commercial production and the organized labor or technology supporting such activities

Etymology: "Industrialis" is a Latin adjective meaning "relating to industry" or "of work," formed from "industria" (diligence, activity) with the suffix "-alis" ("pertaining to"). The Latin "industria" itself is generally traced to "indu-" ("within") and a root related to "struere" ("to build"), giving a sense of building or applying effort within oneself, though the exact internal analysis is debated among scholars. In Latin, "industria" meant diligence, hard work, and deliberate effort rather than factories or manufacturing. The modern sense of "industry" as productive enterprise developed in English much later, and "industrial" in the sense of relating to manufacturing grew up alongside the economic changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.