Definizione monolingua

travail

travail (third-person singular simple present travails, present participle travailing, simple past and past participle travailed)

1. To toil.
2. To go through the labor of childbirth.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XIV:

     A woman when she traveyleth hath sorowe, be cause her houre is come: but as sone as she is delivered off her chylde she remembreth no moare her anguysshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde.

travail (plural travails or travaux)

1. (archaic) Work, especially when arduous or painful; excessive labor, suffering. [from 13th c.]
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 38:

     He had thought of making a destiny for himself, through laborious and untiring travail.

2. Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
3. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th-18th c.]
4. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]
5. Obsolete form of travel.

Definizione dizionario travail

travaglio

Altri significati:

(obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object. [17th c.]

(obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British). [14th-18th c.]

To toil.

(archaic) Work, especially when arduous or painful; excessive labor, suffering. [from 13th c.]

Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]

labour (labor)

to be checked

Obsolete form of travel.

To go through the labor of childbirth.