Where does “labrador” come from?
labrador (English) comes from Portuguese lavrador, from Old Portuguese lavrador, from Latin labōrātor, from French laboratoire, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus.
labrador (English): A Labrador retriever
Ancestry of “labrador”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | lavrador | farmer; husbandman; ploughman |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | lavrador | — |
| 3 | Latin | labōrātor | — |
| 4 | French | laboratoire | laboratory |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 6 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 7 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 8 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 9 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 10 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 11 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 12 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 13 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 14 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 15 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | — |
Words derived from “labrador”