labor
See also: Labor
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪbə(r)
Noun
labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)
- American spelling standard spelling of labour.
Derived terms
Terms derived from labor (noun)
Catalan
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɒbor]
- Hyphenation: la‧bor
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | labor | laborok |
accusative | labort | laborokat |
dative | labornak | laboroknak |
instrumental | laborral | laborokkal |
causal-final | laborért | laborokért |
translative | laborrá | laborokká |
terminative | laborig | laborokig |
essive-formal | laborként | laborokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | laborban | laborokban |
superessive | laboron | laborokon |
adessive | labornál | laboroknál |
illative | laborba | laborokba |
sublative | laborra | laborokra |
allative | laborhoz | laborokhoz |
elative | laborból | laborokból |
delative | laborról | laborokról |
ablative | labortól | laboroktól |
Possessive forms of labor | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | laborom | laborjaim |
2nd person sing. | laborod | laborjaid |
3rd person sing. | laborja | laborjai |
1st person plural | laborunk | laborjaink |
2nd person plural | laborotok | laborjaitok |
3rd person plural | laborjuk | laborjaik |
Synonyms
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Latin
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin, possibly related to Sanskrit लभते (labhate).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈɫa.bɔr]
Inflection
Third declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | labor | labōrēs |
Genitive | labōris | labōrum |
Dative | labōrī | labōribus |
Accusative | labōrem | labōrēs |
Ablative | labōre | labōribus |
Vocative | labor | labōrēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to hang loosely, be weak”). Cognate with labō, English sleep.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlaː.bor/, [ˈɫaː.bɔr]
Verb
lābor (present infinitive lābī, perfect active lāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent
Inflection
This verb takes the future passive participle lābundus instead of *lābendus.
Conjugation of labor (third conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | lābor | lāberis, lābere | lābitur | lābimur | lābiminī | lābuntur |
imperfect | lābēbar | lābēbāris, lābēbāre | lābēbātur | lābēbāmur | lābēbāminī | lābēbantur | |
future | lābar | lābēris, lābēre | lābētur | lābēmur | lābēminī | lābentur | |
perfect | lāpsus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | lāpsus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
future perfect | lāpsus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | lābar | lābāris, lābāre | lābātur | lābāmur | lābāminī | lābantur |
imperfect | lāberer | lāberēris, lāberēre | lāberētur | lāberēmur | lāberēminī | lāberentur | |
perfect | lāpsus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
pluperfect | lāpsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | lābere | — | — | lābiminī | — |
future | — | lābitor | lābitor | — | — | lābuntor | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | lābī | lāpsus esse | lāpsūrus esse | — | — | — | |
participles | lābēns | lāpsus | lāpsūrus | — | — | lābundus | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
lābī | lābendī | lābendō | lābendum | lāpsum | lāpsū |
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, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to exert oneself very energetically in a matter: multum operae ac laboris consumere in aliqua re
- the matter involves much labour and fatigue: res est multi laboris et sudoris
- to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
- not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere
- to spare oneself the trouble of the voyage: labore supersedēre (itineris) (Fam. 4. 2. 4)
- capable of exertion: patiens laboris
- lazy: fugiens laboris
- to take a false step: per errorem labi, or simply labi
- to make a slip of the memory: memoriā labi
- to make a mistake in writing: labi in scribendo
- immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
- (ambiguous) to drain the cup of sorrow: omnes labores exanclare
- (ambiguous) rest after toil is sweet: acti labores iucundi (proverb.)
- to exert oneself very energetically in a matter: multum operae ac laboris consumere in aliqua re
- labor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Spanish
Derived terms
- estar por la labor
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