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Spanish word trabajo comes from Latin tres, Latin tria, Latin paludem, and later Latin tripalis (That has, or is propped up by, three stakes or pales.)
tres (Latin)
tria (Latin)
paludem (Latin)
tripalis (Latin)
That has, or is propped up by, three stakes or pales.
tripalium (Latin)
*tripalio (Latin)
(Vulgar Latin) I torture, cause to suffer.. (Vulgar Latin, by extension) I suffer, toil.. (Vulgar Latin, later) I work.
*tripaliāre (Vulgar Latin)
trabajo (Spanish)
(physics) work. Work, job.