laboriously
/ləˈbɔːɹiəsli/luh-BAW-ree-uh-slee
/ləˈbɔɹiəsli/luh-BAW-ree-uh-slee
Meaningin a laborious way
Common meaning: with great effort and slowness
- labortoil, effortLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1024 · scan
- iousadjective ending: full of, marked by
- lyadverb ending: in a way
Journey through time
- Latinlabor, labōris‘toil, effort’
- Frenchdaborieux
- Englishlaborious‘needing much effort’
- Englishformed in English from laboriouslaboriously‘with great effort and slowness’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Formed in English from laborious + -ly.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), LABORIOUS, p.318 · scan
Roots
- labor, labōris Latin “toil, effort”
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