travail

Senso (Inglese)

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.

sinonimi

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

plug

service

sorrow

striving

suffer

task

Traduzioni

peiner

arbeid

Anstrengung

effort

labeur

travail

Mühe

Plackerei

accouchement

afán

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɹəˈveɪl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: travail

Ereditato da inglese medio: travailen

Affine inglese medio: swinken

Affine inglese antico: 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.