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Where does “Labrador” come from?

Labrador comes from Latin labor meaning "work" or "toil," combined with the Latin agent suffix -tor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European leb-.

Labrador (English): Short for Labrador retriever

Definitions

  1. Short for Labrador retriever

Ancestry of “Labrador”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueselavradorfarmer; husbandman; ploughman
2Old Portugueselavrador—
3Latinlabōrātor—
4Frenchlaboratoirelaboratory
5Medieval Latinlaboratoriumlaboratory
6Latinlabotatoriuslaborable
7Latinlaboratorplowman, tiller of the soil
8Latinlaboratusproduced, having been produced
9LatinlaboroI toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am...
10Latinlaborwork; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,...
11Old Latinlabos—
12Romanianlabăpalm; paw
13Hungarianlábleg; foot; support, stand
14Proto-Uralicluwebone
15Proto-Iranian*Hrawpācáh—
16Proto-Indo-Iranian*Hrawpāćás—

Words derived from “Labrador”

  • labradorite
  • Labradorian
  • Labrador duck
  • Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador
  • Labrador
  • Labradorien
  • labradorien
  • Labrador
  • 拉布拉多
  • Labrador
  • labradorinnoutaja
  • ラブラドール
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