different between labium vs lingua

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lingua (“the tongue”). Doublet of langue and tongue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??.?w?/

Noun

lingua (plural linguae or linguas)

1. (anatomy) Synonym of tongue.
2. (entomology) A median process of the labium, at the underside of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

References

• “lingua”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Gaulin, nilgau

Galician

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. tongue

2. language

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese língua. Cognate with Kabuverdianu lingua.

Noun

lingua

1. tongue
2. language

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?.?wa/

Noun

lingua (plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. language

Synonyms

• (language): linguage

Related terms

• linguage
• linguista
• linguistica

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lin.?wa/
• Hyphenation: lìn?gua

Noun

lingua f (plural lingue)

1. tongue
2. language, tongue
3. strip, tongue (of land)
4. (in the plural) foreign languages
5. the square horn of an anvil
6. (especially in plural) A type of Italian flatbread

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Greek: ????? (lígka)

Anagrams

• i lunga
• langui, languì

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese língua.

Noun

lingua

1. tongue
2. language

Ladino

Alternative forms

• lengua

Etymology

From Latin lingua.

Noun

lingua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ???????, plural linguas)

1. tongue
2. (linguistics) language

Synonyms

• lashon

Latin

Alternative forms

• dingua (ante-classical)

Etymology

From older dingua (attested as a rare word in Gaius Marius Victorinus), from Proto-Italic *den?w?, from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s. The change of d- to l- is variously explained by a borrowing from another Italic language with such a shift and/or by a folk-etymological association with the verb ling? (“lick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.??a/, [?l????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.?wa/, [?li??w?]

Noun

lingua f (genitive linguae); first declension

1. (literally, anatomy) tongue
2. (transferred sense)
   1. tongue, utterance, language, speech
      1. tongue or language of a people
         1. dialect, idiom or mode of speech
      2. (poetic) (of animals) voice, note, song, bark, etc.
      3. utterance, expression
   2. tongue-shaped things:
      1. Ranunculus lingua (a flowering plant)

         Synonym: lingul?ca

      2. oxtongue, bugloss
      3. houndstongue

         Synonym: cynogl?ssos

      4. tongue of land
      5. spoonful
      6. (music) tongue or reed of the Roman tibiae
      7. (classical mechanics) short arm of a lever

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum

Descendants

References

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

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”).

Noun

lingua f (plural linguas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) language

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) linguatg
• (Puter, Vallader, poetic) linguach
• (poetic) favella

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Noun

lingua f (plural lingui)

1. tongue
2. language