English Online Dictionary. What means labor? What does labor mean?
English
Alternative forms
- labour (non-American spelling)
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
- Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Noun
labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of labour
Derived terms
Related terms
- laboral
- laborious
Verb
labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)
- US standard spelling of labour.
Anagrams
- Albor, Albro, Balor, Bolar, bolar, boral, lobar
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin labōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ləˈβor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ləˈbo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [laˈboɾ]
Noun
labor m (plural labors)
- labour, work
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Labor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɒbor]
- Hyphenation: la‧bor
Noun
labor (plural laborok)
- (informal) lab, laboratory
- Synonym: laboratórium
Declension
References
Latin
Etymology 1
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), 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.
Alternative forms
- labōs
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈɫ̪äbɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈläːbor]
Noun
labor m (genitive labōris); third declension
- work
- labor, toil, exertion
- Synonyms: cōnātus, studium, opus, opera, cūra, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
- (chiefly poetic) hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering, drudgery, distress
- illness
- Synonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, incommodum, valētūdō, infirmitas
- Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
- the pain accompanying childbirth, labor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- labōrō
- ēlabōrō
Descendants
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to hang loosely, be weak”), and cognate with labō, English sleep, Proto-Slavic *slàbъ (“weak”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlaː.bor/, [ˈɫ̪äːbɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈläːbor]
Verb
lābor (present infinitive lābī, perfect active lāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent
- to slip, slide, glide
- to fall, sink down
- to slip, stumble
- to vanish, pass away, elapse, escape
- Synonyms: fugiō, effugiō, ēvādō, refugiō, cōnfugiō, diffugiō, aufugiō, prōfugiō, āvolō, ēripiō, ēlābor
- to be mistaken, be wrong, err, commit a fault
- Synonyms: dēlinquō, errō, committō, offendō
Conjugation
This verb takes the future passive participle lābundus instead of *lābendus.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: lapse
References
- “labor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “labor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- labor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- labor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
References
Anagrams
- albor, labrō
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin labōrem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈboɾ/ [laˈβ̞oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: la‧bor
Noun
labor f (plural labores)
- labor
- job, task, chore
- Synonyms: tarea, quehacer
- work, effort
- Synonyms: trabajo, obra
- needlework, embroidery
- Synonyms: costura, bordado
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “labor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014