Where does “laborious” come from?
Laborious comes from Old French laborios, derived from Latin laboriosus, formed from the Latin root labor with the suffix -osus meaning full of or characterized by, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European leb-.
laborious (English): Requiring much physical effort; toilsome;...
Definitions
- Requiring much physical effort; toilsome;...
Ancestry of “laborious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | laborios | — |
| 2 | French | laborieux | laborious |
| 3 | Latin | laboriosus | laborious, toilsome, demanding; industrious,... |
| 4 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 5 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 6 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 7 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 8 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 9 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |