Latin

lābor

‘glide, slip, fall’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin lābor.

19 English words in this record descend from Latin lābor, most familiar first.

• labour ← labor ← labor
• laboratory ← labōrātōrium ← labōrātōrius ← labōrātor ← labōrō
• collaboration ← collaboratus ← labōrō
• collapse ← collāpsus ← collābor
• elaborate ← ēlabōrātus ← ēlabōrō ← labōrō
• lava ← lābēs
• lapse ← laps ← lāpsus
• relapse ← relapsus ← relabi
• laborious ← laborios ← laboriosus
• labile ← lābilis
• elapse ← elapser ← elapsus ← ēlābor
• laboratorium ← labōrātōrius ← labōrātor ← labōrō

More words from lābor

• prelapsarian
• delapse
• illapse
• lapsarian
• laborant
• laborate
• lauwine

Etymograph / Latin lābor