Plumbery is from plumber (from Old French plommier, from Latin plumbarius 'worker in lead', from plumbum 'lead') + -ery. Important recorded forms include plumbarius (Latin) and plumbum (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers the trade or work of a plumber; plumbing. The wider family includes related words such as plumb, plumber, plumbing, and plummet.