Where does “ultralaborious” come from?
ultralaborious (English) comes from English laborious, from Old French laborios, from French laborieux, from Latin laboriosus, from Latin lābor, from Old Latin labos, from Romanian labă, from Hungarian láb — fox.
ultralaborious (English): extremely laborious
Definitions
- extremely laborious
Ancestry of “ultralaborious”, step by step
ultralaborious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English laborious
| 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 |