labes

English

Noun

labes pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Labia.

Anagrams

• Ables, Basel, Basle, Blase, Bleas, Sabel, Sable, ables, albes, baels, bales, beals, blase, blasé, sable, saleb

Latin

Etymology 1

From lābor +‎ -ēs.

Noun

lābēs f (genitive lābis); third declension

1. fall, collapse
2. subsidence
3. fault, defect
4. misfortune

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lābēs	lābēs
Genitive	lābis	lābium
Dative	lābī	lābibus
Accusative	lābem	lābēs lābīs
Ablative	lābe	lābibus
Vocative	lābēs	lābēs

Derived terms

• labīna

Descendants

• Catalan: llau, allau
• Italian: labe
• Spanish: labe

Etymology 2

Verb

labēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of labō

References

• “labes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “labes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• labes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• labes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.