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Latin
Etymology
From labor (“work, exertion”) + -ōsus. However, the inserted -i- is enigmatic. It may be a result of analogy: cūra : cūriōsus = labor : ?
Pronunciation
Adjective
labōriōsus (feminine labōriōsa, neuter labōriōsum, superlative labōriōsissimus, adverb labōriōsē); first/second-declension adjective
- laborious, toilsome, demanding
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 1.1–7:
- Cui dōnō lepidum novum libellum
āridō modo pūmice expolītum?
Cornēlī, tibi: namque tū solēbās
meās esse aliquid putāre nūgās
jam tum, cum ausus es ūnus Ītalōrum
omne aevum tribus explicāre cartīs
doctīs, Jūpiter, et labōriōsīs.
- industrious, hard-working
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “laboriosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laboriosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laboriosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- laboriosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.