infrastructure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French infrastructure, equivalent to infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹɐkt͡ʃə/, /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹakt͡ʃə/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /infɾaːstɾakt͡ʃa(ɾ)/

Noun

infrastructure (countable and uncountable, plural infrastructures)

2. (systems theory) An underlying base or foundation for a building, organization, or system. [from 1887]

   Antonym: superstructure

   Near-synonyms: understructure, underpinnings, underbuilding, underframework

   Hyponym: Common Language Infrastructure

   The parasitic tyranny's infrastructure depends on secrecy in order to be effective.

4. The facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.

   Meronyms: (literally, large objects and portions thereof) structures, substructures, understructures, superstructures

   If we don't spend money to maintain our infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, water mains, sewers, and electrical grids, then it will begin to fail us.

   • 2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

     Infrastructure: It's our roads, bridges, dams, levees, airports, power grids... basically, anything that can be destroyed in an action movie... The problem is, though, when our infrastructure is not being destroyed by robots and/or saved by Bruce Willis we tend to find it a bit boring.

   • 2021 December 2, Liz Stark, “EPA urges states to target billions in new water infrastructure funding to historically underserved communities”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     About $7.4 billion will be allocated to states, tribes and territories for 2022 – the first-year allotment of nearly $44 billion in total SRF funding over the next five years from the infrastructure law, according to an EPA fact sheet.

Derived terms

• applistructure
• cyberinfrastructure
• e-infrastructure
• infrastructural
• infrastructured
• non-infrastructure, noninfrastructure

Translations

underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system

• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʻakaṙuycʻ)
• Belarusian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Bulgarian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Catalan: infraestructura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基礎設施 / 基础设施 (zh) (jīchǔ shèshī)

• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Dutch: infrastructuur (nl) f
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• French: infrastructure (fr) f
• Galician: infraestrutura f
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית f (tashtít)
• Hindi: अवसंरचना f (avsanracnā)
• Hungarian: infrastruktúra (hu)
• Indonesian: infrastruktur (id)
• Irish: infreastruchtúr m, bonneagar m
• Italian: infrastruttura (it) f
• Japanese: インフラストラクチャ (infurasutorakucha), インフラ (ja) (infura)
• Korean: 기반시설(基盤施設) (ko) (gibansiseol), 기간시설(基幹施設) (gigansiseol), 인프라스트럭처 (inpeuraseuteureokcheo), 인프라 (inpeura)
• Latin: infrastuctura f
• Maori: tūāhanga
• Persian: زیرساخت (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Polish: infrastruktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: infraestrutura (pt) f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro) f
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Sanskrit: अवसंरचना f (avasaṃracanā)
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura, suludkayarian
• Thai: โครงสร้างพื้นฐาน (th) (kroong-sâang-pʉ́ʉn-tǎan)
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)

basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society

• Albanian: infrastrukturë f
• Arabic: بِنْيَة تَحْتِيَّة f (binya taḥtiyya)
• Armenian: ենթակառույց (hy) (entʻakaṙuycʻ), ենթակառուցվածք (hy) (entʻakaṙucʻvackʻ)
• Azerbaijani: infrastruktur
• Basque: azpiegitura
• Belarusian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Bulgarian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Catalan: infraestructura (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基礎設施 / 基础设施 (zh) (jīchǔ shèshī), 基建 (zh) (jījiàn)

• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: infrastruktura f
• Danish: infrastruktur c
• Dutch: infrastructuur (nl) c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: taristu, infrastruktuur
• Finnish: infrastruktuuri (fi)
• Galician: infraestrutura f
• Georgian: ინფრასტრუქტურა (inprasṭrukṭura)
• German: Infrastruktur (de) f
• Greek: υποδομή (el) f (ypodomí)
• Hebrew: תַּשְׁתִּית f (tashtít)
• Hindi: अवसंरचना f (avsanracnā)
• Hungarian: infrastruktúra (hu)
• Indonesian: infrastruktur (id), prasarana (id)
• Italian: infrastruttura (it) f
• Japanese: インフラストラクチャ (infurasutorakucha), インフラ (ja) (infura)
• Kazakh: инфрақұрылым (infraqūrylym)
• Korean: 기반시설(基盤施設) (ko) (gibansiseol), 인프라스트럭처 (inpeuraseuteureokcheo), 인프라 (inpeura)
• Kyrgyz: инфраструктура (infrastruktura)
• Latvian: infrastruktūra f
• Lithuanian: infrastruktūra f
• Macedonian: инфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Malay: infrastruktur
• Maori: tūāhanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infrastruktur m

• Persian: زیرساخت (fa) (zirsâxt)
• Polish: infrastruktura (pl) f
• Portuguese: infraestrutura (pt) f
• Romanian: infrastructură (ro) f
• Russian: инфраструкту́ра (ru) f (infrastruktúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфраструкту́ра f

  Roman: infrastruktúra (sh) f

• Slovak: infraštruktúra f
• Slovene: infrastruktura f
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: infrastruktur (sv) c
• Tagalog: imprastruktura, imprastraktura, suludkayarian
• Tajik: инфраструктура (infrastruktura)
• Tamil: (kattumaana vasadhigal)
• Telugu: అవస్థాపన సౌకర్యాలు (avasthāpana saukaryālu)
• Turkish: altyapı (tr), enfrastrüktür (tr)
• Turkmen: infrastruktura
• Ukrainian: інфраструкту́ра f (infrastruktúra)
• Urdu: ہیکل اساسی (haikal-e-asāsī)
• Uzbek: infratuzilma (uz), infrastruktura (uz)
• Vietnamese: cơ sở hạ tầng (vi)

Further reading

• infrastructure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From infra- +‎ structure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fʁas.tʁyk.tyʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

infrastructure f (plural infrastructures)

1. infrastructure (an underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system) [from 1875]

Further reading

• “infrastructure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.