laborator

See also: laboratoř

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Latin labōs

Latin labor

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin labōrō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin labōrātor

From labōrō (“toil, labor; strive”) + -tor (agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫa.boːˈraː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.boˈraː.tor]

Noun

labōrātor m (genitive labōrātōris, feminine labōrātrīx); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin, agriculture) plowman, tiller of the soil

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	labōrātor	labōrātōrēs
genitive	labōrātōris	labōrātōrum
dative	labōrātōrī	labōrātōribus
accusative	labōrātōrem	labōrātōrēs
ablative	labōrātōre	labōrātōribus
vocative	labōrātor	labōrātōrēs

Descendants

• Aromanian: lãvrãtoari
• Asturian: llabrador
• Catalan: llaurador
• French: laboureur
• Friulian: lavoradôr
• Piedmontese: lavorào
• Galician: labrador
• Italian: lavoratore
• Occitan: laurador
• Old French: laboreür, loreür
• Portuguese: lavrador
• Sicilian: lavuraturi
• Spanish: labrador
• Venetan: lavorador, laorador

References

• "laborator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “laborator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Laboratorium or French laboratoire.

Noun

laborator n (plural laboratoare)

1. laboratory

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	laborator	laboratorul	laboratoare	laboratoarele
genitive-dative	laborator	laboratorului	laboratoare	laboratoarelor
vocative	laboratorule		laboratoarelor