Oxford Latin Dictionary
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labor work
labor is a Latin Noun that primarily means work.
Definitions for labor
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
labor, work, toil, a work, production
English derivatives:
laboratory belabor laborious collaborate elaborate
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Work, labour, toil (whether mental or physical). (b) (w. defining gen. or adj.). (c) (w. inf., as pred.). (d) (personified).
- 2
Application to work, industry.
- 3
A specific piece of work, task, undertaking. (b) Herculis ~or, (any) one of the labours of Hercules; (transf,) a very difficult, or Herculean, task; (meton.) one of the subjects of the labours of Hercules. (c) a preoccupation, concern.
Sentences with labor
Latin to English
Magister ā quō liber parātus est labōre superātur.Compare The teacher by whom the book was prepared is overcome with work.
Nōn sine magnō labōre vēritās inveniētur (inventa est, potest invenīrī).Compare Not without great labor will truth be found (was found, can be found).
Sī quis hunc labōrem suscēpisset, mīlle virōs servāvisset.Compare If someone had undertaken this work, he would have saved a thousand men.
Facilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est.Compare The way to Avernus is easy; night and day lie open the gates of death's dark kingdom; but to retrace your steps, to find the way back to daylight- that is the task, the hard thing.
Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano; fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores, nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapali.Compare We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body; for a heart that fears not death, deems mortality one of nature's gifts, can endure any kind of hard work, know no anger and covets naught, and thinks Hercules' labors and hardships better than love-making, banquets, or the soft couches of Sardanapalus.
Labor voluptasque. dissimilis natura, societas quidam inter se naturalis sum innexus. Compare Toil and pleasure, things most unlike in their nature, are connected by a certain natural bond.
Divitias alius fulvo sibi congerat auro et teneat culti iugera multa soli, quem labor adsiduus vicino terreat hoste, Martia cui somnos classica pulsa fugent: me mea paupertas vita traducat inerti, dum meus adsiduo luceat igne focus. (Elegiae, I,1,1)Compare Let others amass riches of yellow gold and own many acres of farmland; let other toil without respite in fear of the nearby enemy, their sleep chased by the blasts of trumpets summoning to battle. For myself, I will be content to lead an inactive life in poverty, provided that my hearth shine with a steady fire.
An ingratus sum? quis minus, qui tantus pro vos gero labor?Compare Am I ungratefu? Who is less so than I, who have borne such toil for you?
Declension table for labor
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | labor | labōrēs |
| Gen. | labōris | labōrum |
| Dat. | labōrī | labōribus |
| Acc. | labōrem | labōrēs |
| Abl. | labōre | labōribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 45.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 991.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 120.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "labor, labōris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/labor-laboris.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 45.labor, labōris on page 45
