laborator
See also: laboratoř
Latin
Etymology
labōrō (“toil, labor; strive”) + -tor (agentive suffix)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /la.boːˈraː.tor/, [ɫ̪äboːˈräːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /la.boˈra.tor/, [läboˈräːt̪or]
Noun
labōrātor m (genitive labōrātōris); third declension
- (Medieval Latin, agriculture) plowman, tiller of the soil
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- English: Labrador
- French: laboureur
- Friulian: lavoradôr
- Galician: labrador
- Italian: lavoratore
- Occitan: laurador
- Old French: laboreür, loreür
- Portuguese: lavrador
- Sicilian: lavuraturi
- Spanish: labrador
- Venetian: lavorador, laorador
References
- laborator 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)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “laborator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill