Where does “sobretrabajo” come from?
sobretrabajo (Spanish) comes from Spanish trabajo, from Spanish trabajar, 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.
sobretrabajo (Spanish): overwork; excessive work or working hours
Definitions
- overwork; excessive work or working hours
Ancestry of “sobretrabajo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | trabajo | work, job; work |
| 2 | Spanish | trabajar | to work; to work in, work on, to workshop; 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 |