Where does “trabalho” come from?
trabalho (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese traballo, from Vulgar Latin tripalium, from Latin tripalis, from Latin tria, from Latin tres, from English three, from Middle English thre, from Old English þrī.
trabalho (Portuguese): job; job; task; work; toil; labour; effort
Definitions
- job; job; task; work; toil; labour; effort
Ancestry of “trabalho”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | traballo | pain, effort, labor |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; toil” ← “suffering” ←... |
| 3 | Latin | tripalis | that has, or is propped up by, three stakes or... |
| 4 | Latin | tria | nominative neuter of trēs; accusative neuter of... |
| 5 | Latin | tres | three; 3 |
| 6 | English | three | A numerical value after two and before four.... |
| 7 | Middle English | thre | three |
| 8 | Old English | þrī | — |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | þrīʀ | three |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | þrīz | three |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |
Words derived from “trabalho”