childbed vs labor what difference

what is difference between childbed and labor

English

Etymology

From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child +‎ bed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃaɪl(d)bɛd/

Noun

childbed (countable and uncountable, plural childbeds)

1. (uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement
2. (countable) The bed in which a baby is born

Derived terms

• childbed fever

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• labour (non-American spelling)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)

Noun

labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)

1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
2. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
3. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
4. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
5. The act of a mother giving birth.
6. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
7. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
8. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
9. (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.

Derived terms

Related terms

• laboral
• laborious

Translations

Verb

labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)

1. US standard spelling of labour.

Translations

Anagrams

• Albor, Albro, Balor, Bolar, bolar, boral, lobar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ləˈbo/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /laˈboɾ/

Noun

labor m (plural labors)

1. labour, work

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Labor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɒbor]
• Hyphenation: la‧bor

Noun

labor (plural laborok)

1. (informal) laboratory

   Synonym: laboratórium

Declension

References

Latin

Etymology 1

From Old Latin labos, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂gʷ- (“to seize, take”), related to Ancient Greek λᾰμβᾰ́νω (lambánō), Sanskrit लभते (labhate) (“take”, “gain”). Sometimes connected with labo (“I totter”), but this is rejected by de Vaan.

Alternative forms

• labos

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈɫ̪äbɔɾ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈlɑːbɔr]

Noun

labor m (genitive labōris); third declension

2. work
3. labour, toil
4. (chiefly poetic) hardship, trouble, fatigue, suffering
5. illness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• labōrō

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂b- (“to hang loosely, be weak”). Cognate with labō, English sleep.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.bor/, [ˈɫ̪äːbɔɾ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bor/, [ˈlɑːbɔr]

Verb

lābor (present infinitive lābī, perfect active lāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent

2. slip, slide, glide
3. fall, sink down
4. slip, stumble
5. vanish, pass away, elapse, escape
7. be mistaken, be wrong, err, commit a fault

Conjugation

This verb takes the future passive participle lābundus instead of *lābendus.

Derived terms

• collābor
• elābor
• illābor
• lābēs
• lābilis
• lābundus
• lapsō
• lāpsus
• relābor

Descendants

• English: lapse

References

• labor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• labor 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• labor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

References

Anagrams

• albor, labrō

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin labor, labōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈboɾ/, [laˈβ̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ

Noun

labor f (plural labores)

1. job, task
2. work, effort

   Synonyms: trabajo, obra

3. labor
4. needlework, embroidery

Related terms

• laboral
• laborar
• laborioso
• labrar

Derived terms

• estar por la labor

Further reading

• “labor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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