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travail (noun, verb):
noun
1a: work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
b: a physical or mental exertion or piece of work : task, effort
c: agony, torment
2: labour, childbirth
verb
1: to labour hard : toil
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Travail traces back to trepalium, a Late Latin word for an instrument of torture. We don't know exactly what a trepalium looked like, but the word's history gives us an idea. Trepalium comes from the Latin adjective tripalis, which means "having three stakes" (from tri-, meaning "three," and palus, meaning "stake"). Trepalium eventually led to the Anglo-French verb travailler, meaning "to torment" but also, more mildly, "to trouble" and "to journey." The Anglo-French noun travail was borrowed into English in the 13th century, along with another descendant of travailler, travel.
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