travail
English
/tɹəˈveɪl/
noun
Definitions
- (literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
- (obsolete) An act of working; labor US, labour British.
- (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
- (alt form) travois
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English travail derived from Old French travail (suffering, torment) derived from Latin *tripaliō, trepālium, tripālis (that which has three stakes, having three stakes, held up by three stakes, held up by three stakes pales) derived from Proto-Italic *trēs (three) derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten, hang), *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten, hang).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂ǵ-
Gloss
attach, fix, fasten, hang
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betravail English
- travailest English
- travaileth English
- travailous English
- *trapaliare, *tripaliāre Latin
- *tripalium Latin
- *tripaliāre Latin
- *tripaliō Latin
- contribūtus Latin
- impactus Latin
- impingo Latin
- impingō Latin
- impāctus Latin
- pacō Latin
- pagina Latin
- pagus Latin
- palaris Latin
- palatio Latin
- palo Latin
- palus Latin
- propago Latin
- pācem Latin
- pāgina, pagina Latin
- pāgus Latin
- pālus Latin
- repagulum Latin
- trabaculare Latin
- trepalium Latin
- trepālium Latin
- tres Latin
- tripalis Latin
- tripalium Latin
- tripālis Latin
- trēs Latin
- trīnitātem Latin
- paesucolo Italian
- travail French
- travailliste French
- télétravail French
- teletrabajar Spanish, Castilian
- trabajador Spanish, Castilian
- trabajar Spanish, Castilian
- πάγη Ancient Greek
- πάγιος Ancient Greek
- πάγος Ancient Greek
- πάσσαλος Ancient Greek
- πάχνη Ancient Greek
- πήγνυμι Ancient Greek
- πηγή Ancient Greek
- πηγός Ancient Greek
- πῆγμα Ancient Greek
- *peh₂ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *peh₂ǵ-slos Proto-Indo-European
- *pāǵe- Proto-Indo-European
- *s-kagʰ-no- Proto-Indo-European
- *tréyes Proto-Indo-European
- betravailen Middle English
- travail Middle English
- travl Danish
- *pazъ Proto-Slavic
- travail Old French
- travaillos Old French
- travauz Old French
- aelod Welsh
- ցանկ Old Armenian
- travas Norman
- travail Middle French
- *pangō Proto-Italic
- *pākslos Proto-Italic
- *trēs Proto-Italic
- travagghiu Sicilian
- *en-pāginja Proto-Albanian
- travajo Ladino
- טראבﬞאזﬞו Ladino
- travay Haitian, Haitian Creole
- *tris Old Latin
- 𐌕𐌓𐌝𐌔 Oscan
- 𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌚 Umbrian