Italian Word of the Day: Lavoro (work / job)

cover image with the word “lavoro” and a man working in the background

A word that consistently makes it onto the list of the top 100 most common words in Italian is lavoro. It derives from the verb lavorare (to work), which in turn comes from the Latin ‘laborare’ (to toil). Because it is a masculine noun, lavoro takes the following definite and indefinite articles: il lavoroun lavoro …

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Italian Word of the Day: Lavorare (to work)

The verb to work translates as lavorare in Italian. It comes from the Latin verb laborare and shares the same origin as the words labor and laboratory in English. Learn with our video and podcast The video is also available on our YouTube channel. The podcast episode can be found on Podbean, Google Podcast, Apple …

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