labor

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (declension-3, masculine) work
2. (declension-3, masculine) labor, toil, exertion
3. (declension-3, masculine, poetic) hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering, drudgery, distress
4. (declension-3, masculine) illness
5. (declension-3, masculine) the pain accompanying childbirth, labour

Verb

1. (conjugation-3, deponent) to slip, slide, glide; (of fluids) to flow gently
2. (conjugation-3, deponent) to fall, sink down
3. (conjugation-3, deponent) to slip, stumble
4. (conjugation-3, deponent) to vanish, pass away, elapse, escape
5. (conjugation-3, deponent) to be mistaken, be wrong, err, commit a fault

Teenoorgestelde van

salūs, valētūdō

Sinonieme

opera

opus

industria

poena

aerumna

moles

Vertalings

work

Arbeit

labour

werk

lavoro

travail

trabajo

arbeid

effort

job

hardship

fatica

έργο

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[ˈɫa.bɔr]

Etimologie (Engels)

From Old Latin labōs, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *leb- (“to seize, take”), whence Sanskrit लभते (labhate, “take, gain”) and Lithuanian lõbis (“wealth”). More commonly connected with labō (“I totter”) (see Etymology 2 below), via semantic development "teetering under a heavy load" → "burden" → "work", but this is rejected by De Vaan, who however provides no alternative. The semantic connection is weak in either case.
Prósper (2019, 27 (483)) suggests a possible root *dh̥₂bʰ-ōs, cognate with Lithuanian dobti (“to strike, beat, kill, (dial.) torment, exhaust”). See source for more.