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tra⋅vail
[truh-veyl, trav-eyl] 
eɪl
–noun
| 1. | painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil. |
| 2. | pain, anguish or suffering resulting from mental or physical hardship. |
| 3. | the pain of childbirth. |
–verb (used without object)
| 4. | to suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in labor. |
| 5. | to toil or exert oneself. |
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| tra·vail (trə-vāl', trāv'āl') n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from travailler, to work hard, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, to torture with a tripalium, from Late Latin tripālium, instrument of torture, probably from Latin tripālis, having three stakes : tri-, tri- + pālus, stake; see pag- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Travail
Trav"ail\ (?; 48), n. [F. travail; cf. Pr. trabalh, trebalh, toil, torment, torture; probably from LL. trepalium a place where criminals are tortured, instrument of torture. But the French word may be akin to L. trabs a beam, or have been influenced by a derivative from trabs (cf. Trave). Cf. Travel.]1. Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. --Hooker. 2. Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.Travail
Trav"ail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Travailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Travailing.] [F. travailler, OF. traveillier, travaillier, to labor, toil, torment; cf. Pr. trebalhar to torment, agitate. See Travail, n.]1. To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." --Latimer. 2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.Travail
Trav"ail\, v. t. To harass; to tire. [Obs.] As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. --Hayward.
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Language Translation for : travail
Spanish:
manualidades, trabajos manuales,
German:
die Handarbeit,
Japanese:
手工品
travail (n.)
"labor, toil," c.1250, from O.Fr. travail "suffering or painful effort, trouble" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture," from V.L. *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in L.L. trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from L. tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria, tres "three" + palus "stake"), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from c.1300.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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