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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

labium (plural labia)

1. (anatomy, usually in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin on either side of the vulva.

   Hyponyms: labium majus, labium minus

2. (botany) The lip of a labiate corolla.
3. (entomology) A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
   1. (zoology) A liplike part of various invertebrates.
4. (music) The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

Derived terms

Related terms

• labrum
• saccolabium

Translations

References

• “labium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “labium”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Malibu, malibu

Latin

Alternative forms

• labia, labea

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) +? -ium (nominal suffix). Doublet of labrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.bi.um/, [???äbi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.bi.um/, [?l??bium]

Noun

labium n (genitive labi? or lab?); second declension

1. (anatomy) lip

   Synonym: labrum

2. axle or some other part of an oil press

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

Derived terms

• labi? (verb)
• labi?sus, labe?sus (adjective)
• sublabium

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• labium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From French labium.

Noun

labium n (uncountable)

1. labium

Declension

English

Noun

endite (plural endites)

1. One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.

Verb

endite (third-person singular simple present endites, present participle enditing, simple past and past participle endited)

1. Obsolete form of indite.

Synonyms

• maxilla

Anagrams

• eident, tendie