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Where does “lab” come from?

lab (Dutch) comes from Dutch laboratorium, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor, from Old Latin labos.

lab (Dutch): lab

Definitions

  1. lab

Ancestry of “lab”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchlaboratoriumlaboratory, room, building or institution...
2Medieval Latinlaboratoriumlaboratory
3Latinlabotatoriuslaborable
4Latinlaboratorplowman, tiller of the soil
5Latinlaboratusproduced, having been produced
6LatinlaboroI toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am...
7Latinlaborwork; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,...
8Old Latinlabos—
9Romanianlabăpalm; paw
10Hungarianlábleg; foot; support, stand
11Proto-Uralicluwebone
12Proto-Iranian*Hrawpācáh—
13Proto-Indo-Iranian*Hrawpāćás—
Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawpāćás →