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Tripalium or trepalium (derived from the Latin roots, "tri- / tres" and "pālus" – literally, "three stakes") 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), and travel, travail (English). Save for the English and the Italian words, all of these mean "work".