industria

See also: Industria and indústria

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /indusˈtria/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧tri‧a

Adjective

industria (accusative singular industrian, plural industriaj, accusative plural industriajn)

1. industrial

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian индустрия (industrija).

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈindu.striɑ/, [ˈindŭˌs̠triɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈindu.striɑ/, [ˈind̥uˌʃtriɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation: in‧du‧stri‧a

Noun

industria

1. industry
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 53:

     Kuin noisoo industria sekametsäzoonaas.

     How the industry started in the mixed forests.

Declension

Declension of industria (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	industria	industriat
genitive	industrian	industrioin
partitive	industriaa	industrioja
illative	industriaa	industrioi
inessive	industrias	industriois
elative	industriast	industrioist
allative	industrialle	industrioille
adessive	industrial	industrioil
ablative	industrialt	industrioilt
translative	industriaks	industrioiks
essive	industrianna, industriaan	industrioinna, industrioin
exessive1)	industriant	industrioint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

• industriaraijona
• industriatööläin

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin industria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdus.trja/, /inˈdus.tri.a/

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• Rhymes: -ustrja, -ustria
• Hyphenation: in‧dù‧stria, in‧dù‧stri‧a

Noun

industria f (plural industrie)

1. industry
2. manufacturing

Related terms

• industriale
• industriarsi
• industrioso

Anagrams

• diurnista, indurasti, saturnidi

Latin

Etymology

Either from a substantivization of the feminine forms of industrius or from the same elements + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈdʊs.tri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈdus.tri.a]

Noun

industria f (genitive industriae); first declension

1. diligence, assiduousness
2. industry, (energetic) activity
   • 44 BCE, Cicero, De Officiis:

     In accusando etiam M'. Aquilio L. Fufi cognita industria est.

     The activity of Lucius Fufius in the impeachment of Manius Aquilius is likewise famous.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	industria	industriae
genitive	industriae	industriārum
dative	industriae	industriīs
accusative	industriam	industriās
ablative	industriā	industriīs
vocative	industria	industriae

Derived terms

• de industriā, ex industriā, ob industriam

Descendants

• Catalan: indústria
• French: industrie (see there for further descendants)
• Galician: industria
• Italian: industria
• Occitan: industria
• Portuguese: indústria
• Romanian: industrie
• Russian: индустри́я (industríja)
• Spanish: industria

References

• “industria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “industria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "industria", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “industria”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to apply oneself zealously, diligently to a thing: studium, industriam (not diligentiam) collocare, ponere in aliqua re
    
  • designedly; intentionally: de industria, dedita opera (opp. imprudens)
    
• “industria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Dizionario latino, Olivetti
• “industria”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Portuguese

Noun

industria f (plural industrias)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of indústria

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈdustɾja/ [ĩn̪ˈd̪us.t̪ɾja]
• Rhymes: -ustɾja
• Syllabification: in‧dus‧tria

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin industria.

Noun

industria f (plural industrias)

1. industry (the tendency to work persistently)
2. industry (businesses of the same type)
3. industry (businesses that produce goods)

Hyponyms

• industria aeroespacial (“aerospace industry”)
• industria alimentaria (“food industry”)
• industria automotriz (“automobile industry”)
• industria cinematográfica (“film industry”)
• industria de la construcción (“construction industry”)
• industria del entretenimiento (“entertainment industry”)
• industria del espectáculo (“entertainment industry”)
• industria del petróleo y el gas (“oil and gas industry”)
• industria energética (“energy industry”)
• industria espacial (“space industry”)
• industria farmacéutica (“pharmaceutical industry”)
• industria hotelera (“hotel industry, hospitality industry”)
• industria pesada
• industria pesquera (“fishing industry”)
• industria petrolera (“oil industry”)
• industria química (“chemical industry”)
• industria textil (“textile industry”)
• industria turística (“tourism industry”)

Derived terms

• agroindustria
• industria ligera
• industrial

Etymology 2

Verb

industria

1. inflection of industriar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “industria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025