travailous

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English travailous (“laborious, wearisome”), from Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos (“tiring, painful”). Equivalent to travail +‎ -ous. === Adjective === travailous (comparative more travailous, superlative most travailous) (obsolete, now rare) Causing or involving travail; laborious; toilsome. === References === “travailous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. === Further reading === “travailous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “travailous, adj.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. == Middle English == === Alternative forms === travaylous, travaylouse, travyliouse, travailouse, travaillous, traveilous, traveilouse, traveillous, travalous, travelous, travelouse, travelos, travelyous, travellous, travylus === Etymology === From Anglo-Norman travaillous, Old French travaillos. === Adjective === travailous hardworking, industrious laborious, taxing, wearisome perilous, inhospitable, inaccessible woeful, pained, wretched distressing, painful === References === “travailǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.