Where does “travail” come from?
travail (Middle French) comes from Old French travail, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
travail (Middle French): suffering; pain
Definitions
- suffering; pain
Ancestry of “travail”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | travail | suffering, torment |
| 2 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 4 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 5 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 6 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |