Where does “trabajólico” come from?
trabajólico (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.
trabajólico (Spanish): workaholic
Definitions
- workaholic
Ancestry of “trabajólico”, step by step
trabajólico traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish trabajo
| 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 |
via Spanish alcohólico
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | alcohólico | alcoholic |
| 2 | Spanish | -ico | Added to nouns to form adjectives; -ic; Usually... |
| 3 | Latin | -icum | nominative neuter singular of -icus; accusative... |
| 4 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |