different between labia vs cervix

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?'b?-?
• IPA^(key): /?le?.bi.?/
• Rhymes: -e?bi?

Noun

labia pl (normally plural, singular labium)

1. (anatomy) The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.

   Hypernym: genitals

   Hyponyms: labia majora, labia minora

labia

1. plural of labium

Usage notes

Though usually used as a plural, this noun is also attested as a singular with plural labias or labiae.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:labia

Related terms

• labial
• labium

Translations

References

• “labia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Abila, Alabi, baila

Latin

Alternative forms

• labea (feminine noun)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.bi.a/, [???äbiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.bi.a/, [?l??bi?]

Noun

labia f (genitive labiae); first declension

1. feminine of labium

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

? English: labia

Noun

labia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of labium

References

• labia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labia.

Noun

labia f (oblique plural labias, nominative singular labia, nominative plural labias)

1. (10th century) lip

   • circa 980, La Vie de Saint Léger

     La labia li ad restaurat

     He [=God] restored his lip to him

Usage notes

• The Vie de Saint Léger citation is the only known recorded usage of the term.

Spanish

Noun

labia f (plural labias)

1. gift of the gab

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerv?x (“neck”), see below.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.v?ks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?.v?ks/

Noun

cervix (plural cervixes or cervices)

1. (anatomy) The neck
2. The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
3. The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

Derived terms

• cervical
• paracervix

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerv?x, see below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.v?ks/
• Hyphenation: cer?vix

Noun

cervix m (plural cervixen or cervices, diminutive cervixje n)

1. neck
2. The cervix between the uterus and the vagina.

Synonyms

• (neck): nek, hals
• (uterus portion): baarmoederhals

Derived terms

• cervicaal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“the head”) (compare cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to curve, bend”) (compare vinci?), literally “where the head turns”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ker.u?i?ks/, [?k?ru?i?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??er.viks/, [?t???rviks]

Noun

cerv?x f (genitive cerv?cis); third declension

1. (anatomy, zootomy) neck, nape

   Synonym: collum

2. (figuratively)
   1. great burden, danger (from the figure taken from bearing the yoke)
   2. boldness, headstrong behavior
3. (transferred sense) (of an object) neck

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• cervix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cervix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cervix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cervix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French cérvix

Noun

cervix n (uncountable)

1. cervix

Declension