Where does “laboratorium” come from?
laboratorium (Indonesian) comes from Dutch laboratorium, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator, from Latin laboratus, from Latin laboro, from Latin labor, from Old Latin labos — fox.
laboratorium (Indonesian): laboratory: room, building or institution equipped for scientific research or similarly specialised operations, such as production
Definitions
- laboratory: room, building or institution equipped for scientific research or similarly specialised operations, such as production
Ancestry of “laboratorium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | laboratorium | laboratory, room, building or institution... |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 3 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 4 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 5 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 6 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 7 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 8 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 9 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 10 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 11 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 12 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |