usine

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

usine

The old French 'usine' (workshop, workplace, 'work') - for a long time limited to the northeast of France - is derived from the Latin 'usus' as 'ustrina' is derived from 'ustum' or from the Latin 'officina' according to a phonetic evolution specific to the dialect of the north, and whose scholarly form is 'officine'. In the 18th century, the word reached Paris with the meaning of 'mill, place where labor is provided by hydraulic power'; it took on the meaning of 'industrial establishment' at the beginning of the 19th century with the rise of industrialization. The word came into common usage around 1830-1840. It was then 'new' and allowed to distinguish 'manufacture', 'factory', whose meaning is 'production' rather than 'workplace', and 'workshop', 'officine', 'workroom', 'shop' which designate small-scale workplaces, with a craft or commercial vocation.

Definition

Plural

usines

Translations

  • germangerman:Fabrik
  • englishenglish:works
  • chinesechinese:厂
  • koreankorean:공장
  • danishdanish:fabrik
  • spanishspanish:fábrica
  • finnishfinnish:tehdas
  • greekgreek:εργοστάσιο
  • italianitalian:fabbrica
  • japanesejapanese:工場
  • dutchdutch:fabriek
  • polishpolish:fabryka
  • portugueseportuguese:fábrica
  • russianrussian:фабрика
  • swedishswedish:fabrik
  • turkishturkish:tesis

See also

usiner (v.) usinage (cn.) usinabilité (cn.) usinable (adj.) usinier (adj.) usinier (cn.) usines (v.)