means a thing or service that's been made, grown, or refined so it can be sold or used — the tangible result of some process.

from From Latin 'productum,' 'something brought forth,' the neuter past participle of 'producere' — 'pro-' (forward) plus 'ducere' (to lead). So a product is literally that which has been 'led forward' into existence, a cousin of words like 'produce,' 'duct,' and 'conduct,' all carrying that sense of leading or drawing out. It entered English in the 1400s by way of mathematics — the 'product' of multiplication — before broadening to mean anything brought forth by labor or industry.