Product
nounA thing that is manufactured or grown to be sold.
How to spell product
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce product
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does product mean?
- nounA thing that is manufactured or grown to be sold.
- nounThe result obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
Product in a sentence
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The company launched a new product aimed at older customers.
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The product of six and seven is forty-two.
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Every product on the shelf carries a clear price label.
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To find the area, calculate the product of the length and the width.
Where does product come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word comes from the Latin productum, meaning 'something brought forth' or 'produced', which is the neuter past participle of producere. That verb is built from pro, meaning 'forward' or 'forth', and ducere, meaning 'to lead' or 'to bring', so the literal sense was to lead something out into existence. English adopted it in the fifteenth century, at first in the mathematical sense of a quantity obtained by multiplying numbers together. The broader commercial meaning of a manufactured good came later as trade and industry expanded. The same ducere root drives a large family of English words, including 'conduct', 'reduce', and 'introduce', and that shared 'duct' spelling is a reliable anchor for the ending.
How the word is built
- pro- (forward, forth)
- duct (from Latin ducere: to lead, bring); literally 'something brought forth'
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