labium

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪbɪəm/
• enPR: lā'bē-əm

Noun

labium (plural labia)

1. (anatomy) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
2. (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
3. (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven in a flue pipe in an organ.

Derived terms

• labia majora
• labia minora

Translations

liplike structure

• Bulgarian: устна (bg) f (ustna)
• Chinese:

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• Estonian: häbememokk
• Finnish: huuli (fi); häpyhuuli (fi) (in vulva)
• French: lèvre (fr) f, lèvre de la vulve f
• German: Schamlippe (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Marathi: जिवणी (jivṇī), चीरी (cīrī), भेगा (bhegā), दला (dalā), स्त्रीपुष्पदला (strīpuṣpadlā), स्त्रीपुष्पहार (strīpuṣpahār), कळी (kaḷī), कलिका (kalikā), मुकुल (mukul), रती (ratī), मदनमंजिरी (madanmañjirī), ऋतुमंजिरी (ŕtumañjirī), पुष्पगंधा (puṣpagandhā), नार (nār)
• Romanian: labie (ro) f
• Russian: губа́ (ru) f (gubá)
• Spanish: labio (es) m, labio de la vulva m
• Swedish: blygdläpp (sv) c
• Volapük: kunudalip

lip of a labiate corolla

• Chinese:

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• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: huuli (fi)
• Russian: ла́биум m (lábium), ни́жняя губа́ f (nížnjaja gubá)

Anagrams

• Malibu, malibu

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Latin

Alternative forms

• labia f
• labea f

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.um/, [ˈɫ̪äbiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.um/, [ˈläːbium]

Noun

labium n (genitive labiī or labī); second declension

1. lip

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	labium	labia
Genitive	labiī labī1	labiōrum
Dative	labiō	labiīs
Accusative	labium	labia
Ablative	labiō	labiīs
Vocative	labium	labia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (lip): labrum

Derived terms

• labiō

Related terms

• labeōsus

Descendants

• English: labium, labiate
• Italian: labio
• Catalan: llavi
• Portuguese: lábio
• Spanish: labio

References

• “labium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “labium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• labium 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)
• labium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.