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labor

Pronunciation: [ˈɫa.bɔr]

“labor” is a Latin word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. work
  2. labor, toil, exertion
  3. hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering, drudgery, distress
  4. illness
  5. the pain accompanying childbirth, labour

verb

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

In Latin

  1. Actio laborandi.
  2. Quod laborando efficitur.

Etymology

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 (“to 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…

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