traballo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese traballo, either from traballar or from Vulgar Latin tripalium (“torture instrument”). Compare Spanish trabajo, Portuguese trabalho, Asturian trabayu, French travail.

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈβaʎo̝/

traballo m (plural traballos)

1. (usually in the plural) hardship, hard times, difficulty

   Antes pasabamos moitos traballos para criar os fillos.

   In the past we had many hard times raising our children.

2. struggle, effort
   • 1339, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 370:

     a servicio de deus et de noso señor el rey don alfonso et a prol de todo o reyno de galiza por dar a cada un o seu et refrenar a cobiza dos maos que en una ora rouban et consumen os averes que os omens ganan en gran tenpo con gran traballo

     in the service of God an of our lord the king Don Alfonso and in favor of the whole Kingdom of Galicia, to give each one his own, to restrain the greed of the bad ones who in an hour rob and consume the assets and properties that men gain in a long time and with great effort

   Synonym: esforzo

3. work

   Synonyms: choio, labor

4. job

   Synonyms: emprego, ocupación, oficio, profesión

5. (physics) work

traballo

1. first-person singular present indicative of traballar

• “traballo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “traballo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “traballo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “traballo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “traballo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

traballo

1. first-person singular present indicative of traballare