laboratorio Italian · revision 38198

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=17th century, Tuscan scientific documents|origins=la labor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /la.bo.raˈtɔ.rjo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''laboratorio''' ''m'' (plural laboratori)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned word, [[bor|la-new|laboratorium]], first the workshop of the alchemist, from the adjective [[la-med|laboratorius|t=that can be worked]], derived from [[la|labōrō|t=to work]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026) Wiktionary takes the adjective from [[la-lat|labōrātor|t=worker]].^(Wiktionary) DEI instead derives the Italian word from [[fr|laboratoire]], recorded in 1620, and dates it to the 18th century.^(DEI|2145)^(GDLI)

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+ DELI notes that all the dictionaries agree in making the chemist's workplace the first modern sense, as it is for the French word from the 17th century.^(DELI 1999) The popular forms [[lavoratorio]] and [[lavoratoio]], from [[lavorare]], correspond to it.^(DELI 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is from the 17th century, in documents of the physical sciences in Tuscany, for a room equipped for scientific research and experiments.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Nocentini 2010) The ''lavoratorio'' of the Sienese statutes of 1329–1335 is something else, an adjective meaning “working” in ''dì lavoratorio'', a working day.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Tommaseo's dictionary (1869) defines it as the place where chemical and pharmaceutical preparations are made, adding that in some places it is also the room where craftsmen do their work;^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(DELI 1999) DELI dates the craft sense to that dictionary.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(DELI 1999) The older form ''lavoratoio'' appears in a statute of the Florentine leather-workers and in Francesco Milizia, for craftsmen's workshops.^(GDLI) The sense “room behind a shop where goods are made or mended” is recorded in 1957, together with ''laboratorista'', a laboratory worker.^(DELI 1999)

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+ In 1967 ''laboratorio linguistico'' appears, probably after English ''language laboratory'', and ''laboratorio spaziale'' is a translation of English ''space laboratory''.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011) In recent use the word also names a place or setting where new artistic, cultural or political experiences are worked out, as in ''laboratorio teatrale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1329–1335 – The Sienese statutes use the adjective ''lavoratorio'' “working”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1620 – French ''laboratoire'' is recorded.^(DEI|2145)^(GDLI)

+ * 17th century – ''Laboratorio'' appears in Tuscan scientific documents.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 1869 – Tommaseo's dictionary records the sense “craftsman's workshop”.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * 1957 – The sense “shop's workroom” and ''laboratorista'' are recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1967 – ''Laboratorio linguistico'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|laboratory]], a room or building equipped for scientific research, experiments and tests: ''Ha passato la notte in laboratorio a ripetere l'esperimento.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # A [[m|en|workshop]] where craft work is done: ''un laboratorio di restauro del mobile''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # A room next to a shop where goods are made, altered or repaired: ''Il gioielliere ha il laboratorio dietro il negozio.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A place or setting where new artistic, cultural or political experiences are worked out; a workshop activity, as in ''laboratorio teatrale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(technical)'' The part of an industrial furnace into which the material to be worked is put.^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[laboratorista]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavorare]]

+ * [[lavoratorio]]

+ * [[la|labor]]

+ * [[fr|laboratoire]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}