Trepalium
Tripalium or trepalium (derived from the Latin roots, "tri- / tres" and "pālus" – literally, "three stakes") is a Latin term believed to name a torture instrument consisting of "three stakes" (based on its literal meaning), and commonly thought to be the source for several common modern words, including travail (French), trabajo (Spanish), travaglio (Italian), trabalho (Portuguese), traballo (Galician), treball (Catalan), trivalliu (Logudorese Sardinian), travagghiu (Sicilian language), traballu (Campidanese Sardinian) and travel, travail (English). With the exception of the English word and the Italian word, all of these mean "work". This theory has been contested.
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