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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-86/
- Published: 2019-10-25T17:15:40.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-25T08:56:12.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

travail (noun) – 1\. Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil. See Synonyms at work.  
2\. Tribulation or agony; anguish.  
3\. The labour of childbirth.

(verb) – 1\. To work strenuously; toil.  
2\. To be in the labour of childbirth.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/travail?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Etymologists are pretty certain that travail comes from trepalium, the Late Latin name of an instrument of torture. We don’t know exactly what a trepalium looked like, but the word’s history gives us an idea. Trepalium is derived from the Latin tripalis, which means “having three stakes” (from tri-, meaning “three,” and palus, meaning “stake”). From trepalium sprang the Anglo-French verb travailler, which originally meant “to torment” but eventually acquired the milder senses “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.