travail
verb
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L333309 on Wikidata ↗noun
- painful exertion
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɹəˈveɪl/ / /ˈtɹæˌveɪl/
noun
Etymology: 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.
- Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
“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. […]”
“But as every thing of price, so this doth require travail.”
- Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
“The lady shrieks and, well-a-near, Does fall in travail with her fear.”
“And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first,”
- An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
- The eclipse of a celestial object.
- Obsolete form of travel.
- Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”)
verb
Etymology: 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”)).
- To toil.
“[A]ll slothful persons, which will not travail for their livings, do the will of the devil.”
“The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.”
- 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.”
“And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour.”