Where does “laboriously” come from?
Laboriously derives from Middle English -ly added to Latin laboriosus, an adjective formed with the Latin suffix -osus from a root ultimately traceable to Proto-Indo-European elements including leb-, līg-, and ḱóm.
laboriously (English): With great expenditure of effort, in a manner...
Definitions
- With great expenditure of effort, in a manner...
Ancestry of “laboriously”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | laborious | Requiring much physical effort; toilsome;... |
| 2 | Old French | laborios | — |
| 3 | French | laborieux | laborious |
| 4 | Latin | laboriosus | laborious, toilsome, demanding; industrious,... |
| 5 | Latin | lābor | work |
| 6 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 7 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 8 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 9 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 10 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |