Where does “laboratorium” come from?
laboratorium (Polish) comes from German Laboratorium, from Latin laboratorium, from Latin labōrātōrius, from Latin labōrātor, from French laboratoire, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator.
laboratorium (Polish): laboratory
Ancestry of “laboratorium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | Laboratorium | laboratory |
| 2 | Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 3 | Latin | labōrātōrius | — |
| 4 | Latin | labōrātor | — |
| 5 | French | laboratoire | laboratory |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 7 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 8 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 9 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 10 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 11 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 12 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 13 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 14 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 15 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 16 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | — |