Where does “lab work” come from?
lab work (English) comes from English Lab, from English laboratory, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor — fox.
lab work (English): work done in a laboratory
Definitions
- work done in a laboratory
Ancestry of “lab work”, step by step
lab work traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Lab
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Lab | Diminutive of Labrador |
| 2 | English | laboratory | A room, building or institution equipped for... |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 4 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 5 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 6 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 7 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 8 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 9 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 10 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 11 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 12 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 13 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |