travail

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
3. (countable, obsolete) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
4. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
5. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of travel.
6. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)

Verb

1. To toil.
2. To go through the labor of childbirth.

Conceptes

esforç

embaràs

afany

feinada

gestació

dedicació

Sinònims

labour

labor

toil

drudge

fag

exertion

parturiency

struggle

labour pain

work

moil

effort

elbow grease

childbed

grind

suffering

parturition

trouble

lying-in

dig

confinement

sweat

😓

throes

torment

vice

work hard

birth pangs

donkeywork

giving birth

nisus

childbirth

pain

pains of childbirth

obstetrical delivery

pains

agony

birth

birthing

burden

care

delivery

drudgery

encumbrance

endeavor

have a hard time of it

labor pains

onus

painful

ado

plodding

Traduccions

peiner

esforço

travaglio

arbeid

fatica

Anstrengung

labeur

Plackerei

accouchement

effort

تعب

travail

Mühe

sforzo

κόπος

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tɹəˈveɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: travail

Heretat de anglès mitjà: travailen

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: swinken

Cognat amb anglès antic: swincan

In summary

PIE word
*tréyes
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From Middle English travail, from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), deverbal of travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, from Late Latin tripālium, from Latin tripālis (“held up by three stakes”) from Proto-Italic *trēs + *pākslos from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of travel.