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Where does “trabalhar” come from?

trabalhar (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese traballar, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

trabalhar (Portuguese): to work

Definitions

  1. to work

Ancestry of “trabalhar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesetraballar—
2Vulgar Latintripaliareto work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō
3Latintripaliumtorture instrument; a torture instrument
4Latintripālis—
5Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “trabalhar”

  • trabalhador
  • antitrabalhador
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