Where does “laboratorium” come from?
laboratorium (Dutch) comes from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor, from Old Latin labos, from Romanian labă — fox.
laboratorium (Dutch): laboratory, room, building or institution...
Definitions
- laboratory, room, building or institution...
Ancestry of “laboratorium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 2 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 3 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 4 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 5 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 6 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 7 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 8 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 9 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 10 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 11 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |