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laborem

laborem is a Latin form of labor, meaning “toil, work; (verb) slip, glide”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of laboro, “work, toil; be in distress”.

Found 275 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.14.1: Compluribus expugnatis oppidis Caesar, ubi intellexit frustra tantum laborem sumi neque hostium fugam captis oppidis reprimi neque iis noceri posse, statuit expectandam classem.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 4.31.6: … llit timet, nec miratur quae elegit, si modo magnus illi et invictus animus est. Summitti te ac deprimi veto. Laborem si non recuses, parum est; posce.

Plautus, Rudens 1.3.191: nam hóc mi haud labórist, labórem hunc potíri,

All forms of labor (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.