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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1425|origins=la dūcō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: verb UK /prəˈdʒuːs/, US /prəˈduːs/; noun UK /ˈprɒdʒ.uːs/, US /ˈprɑː.duːs/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|producen]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|la|prōdūcere|t=to lead forth, bring forth, draw out]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|la|prō-|t=forth]] and [[m|la|dūcere|t=to lead, bring]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*deuk-|t=to lead]].^(Etymonline) The noun is from the verb.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) It is related to [[duct]], [[product]] and [[tow]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To extend, proceed: probably before 1425, in a translation of Chauliac's ''Grande Chirurgie'',^(Barnhart 1988) the early 15th century in Etymonline.^(Etymonline) The OED's first example, “to bring forward”, is from 1499.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “To bring into existence” is from the late 15th century,^(Etymonline) or 1513 in Barnhart.^(Barnhart 1988) Of animals or plants, “to bear, generate”, is from the 1520s.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) “To yield, supply” is from 1585,^(Barnhart 1988) and to put a play on the stage from the 1580s.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) “To make by mental or physical work” is from the 1630s,^(Etymonline) and the economic sense, to create goods that will fetch a price, by 1827.^(Etymonline) The noun, “that which is produced”, is from the 1690s, at first stressed like the verb,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) and agricultural produce, as distinguished from manufactured goods, from 1745.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) ''Producer'' is from 1513, and of plays and films from 1891.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1425 – to extend, proceed.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1499 – to bring forward.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1513 – to bring into existence.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1520s – to bear offspring or fruit.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1580s – to put a play on stage.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1690s – noun, the thing produced.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1745 – agricultural produce.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1827 – in political economy.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make or [[manufacture]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To bring forth; to [[yield]] or bear.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To cause or give rise to.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To bring forward for inspection: ''to produce a passport''.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # To oversee and finance a play, film or recording.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # ''(geometry)'' To extend a line.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # Farm products, especially fresh fruit and [[vegetable|alt=vegetables]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Something produced; a [[product]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[producible]]

+ * [[producibility]]

+ * [[coproduce]]

+ * [[mass-produce]]

+ * [[reproduce]]

+ * [[interproduce]]

+ * [[misproduce]]

+ * [[outproduce]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[producer]]

+ * [[product]]

+ * [[production]]

+ * [[productive]]

+ * [[duct]]

+ * [[conduct]]

+ * [[induce]]

+ * [[duke]]

+ * [[tow]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}