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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin labōrō + -ieren.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: la‧bo‧rie‧ren
Verb
laborieren (weak, third-person singular present laboriert, past tense laborierte, past participle laboriert, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) to work in a laboratory, to apply chemistry on a specific thing
1845, Franz Gräffer, Kleine Wiener Memoiren: Historische Novellen, Genrescenen, Fresken, Skizzen, Persönlichkeiten und Sachlichkeiten, Anecdoten und Curiosa, Visionen und Notizen zur Geschichte und Characteristik Wien’s und der Wiener, in älterer und neuerer Zeit., Zweyter Theil, Wien: Fr. Beck’s Universitäts-Buchhandlung, published 1845, page 139:Bacciochi half im Laboratorium auf der Landstraße aus und hatte seine Freunde an der Ducaten-Fabrik. Manchmal schlich auch der Dichter Blumauer, Gräfer’s Handlungs-Gesellschafter, hinaus, nicht aber, zu laboriren, sondern ein Gläschen Tokaier zu schlürfen, und über die Tiegel und Retorten zu lachen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive) to travail, to labor, especially with a disease
Conjugation
Conjugation of
laborieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Composed forms of
laborieren (
weak, auxiliary
haben)
References
Further reading
- “laborieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “laborieren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon