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