Appearance

Theme

Reading text

Font
Size
100%
Spacing

Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

Issues / Feedback

This report will be visible to the general public on our GitHub issue tracker. Please do not submit private or sensitive information.
Only needed if you want updates or clarification on GitHub.

Dictionary settings

Enabled Dictionaries
Search Scope

Match conjugated verbs and declined nouns/adjectives.

Highlight Strength 50%
Contents (3 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
Source
Source & Attribution
Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
laborious Copy link
Outline
• laborious:
      1. 1. lăbōriōsus (toilsome: infreq.): a very extensive and l. work, opus maximum ac laboriosissimum, Liv. 5, 18, fin.: Cic.
      2. 2. ŏpĕrōsus (oft. in act. sense, painstaking, industrious: in present sense, less strong than preced.): a tough and l. task, spissum et o. opus, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14. Join: (labor) operosus et molestus, Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59.
      3. 3. expr. by lăbor, ŏpĕra, ŏpus, esp. in gen. of quality (L. G. 274): it (the discipline) is very l., magni est laboris, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150: l. as the undertaking was, etsi res erat multae operae ac laboris, Caes. B. G. 5, 11: cf. haud magni operis, Liv. 38, 7, med. (labor indicates toilsomeness, opera exertion): so, how l., quanti laboris, operis! v. labour. For active sense, v. industrious.