travail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 trə-vālʹ

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship. literary
    — Great trauail is created to al men, and an heauie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from the day of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their burying, into the mother of al. […]
  2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
    — The lady shrieks and, well-a-near, Does fall in travail with her fear.
  3. An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). countable,obsolete
  4. The eclipse of a celestial object. obsolete
  5. Obsolete form of travel. alt-of,obsolete
  6. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”) alt-of,alternative
动词 v.
  1. To toil.
    — [A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil.
  2. To go through the labor of childbirth.
    — A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.

词形变化

travails plural travaux plural travel alternative,obsolete travell alternative,obsolete travails present,singular,third-person travailing participle,present travailed participle,past travailed past travel alternative,obsolete travell alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Possible appearance of a tripalium
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos
Proto-Italic *pākslos
Latin pālus
Latin -is
Latin tripālis
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Byzantine Greek τριπάσσαλον (tripássalon)calq.?
Vulgar Latin tripālium
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre
Old French travaillerdeverb.
Old French travailbor.
Middle English travail
English travail
Inherited from Middle English travail, borrowed from Old French travail (“suffering, torment”), deverbal from travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre (“to torment”), from tripālium (“torture device”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of travel and travois.
词源 2
From Middle English travailen, from Old French travailler, from the noun (see above). Doublet of travel. Displaced native Middle English swinken (“to work”) (from Old English swincan (“to labour, to toil, to work at”)).
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