labial
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial (not comparable)
- (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
- Synonym: cheilo-
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 109:
- The wound that does not kill Christ is the magical labial wound; it is the seal of the resurrection and an expression of the myth of eternal recurrence.
- (linguistics, phonetics) Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
- (dentistry, of an incisor or canine) On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
- (music) Furnished with lips.
- a labial organ pipe
Coordinate terms edit
- (dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
Derived terms edit
- alveololabial
- anterolabial
- apicolabial
- axiolabial
- basolabial
- bilabial
- buccolabial
- cervicolabial
- dentolabial
- distolabial
- endolabial
- exolabial
- gingivolabial
- illabial
- infralabial
- inguinolabial
- interlabial
- labial-alveolar consonant
- labial artery
- labial consonant
- labial geyser
- labialism
- labiality
- labialize, labialise
- labially
- labial-palatal approximant
- labial-palatal consonant
- labial pipe
- linguolabial
- lorilabial
- maxillolabial
- mentolabial
- mesiolabial
- mesolabial
- nasolabial
- nonlabial
- orolabial
- posterolabial
- postlabial
- prelabial
- sublabial
- superlabial, supralabial
- translabial
- vaginolabial
- ventrolabial
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Noun edit
labial (plural labials)
- (linguistics, phonetics) A consonant articulated by the lips.
- Hyponyms: bilabial, labiodental
- 1670, Francis Bacon, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries, Natural History, Century II, pp 197-98:
- The motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, & c. which go to the making of the ſeveral Alphabetical Letters are worthy inquiry, and pertinent to the preſent Inquiſition of Sounds: But becauſe they are ſubtil and long to deſcribe, we will refer them over, and place them amongſt the Experiments of Speech. The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have aſſigned which Letters are Labial, which Dental, which Guttural, & c
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- You have but the same four letters to describe the salute which you perform on your grandmother’s forehead, and that which you bestow on the sacred cheek of your mistress; but the same four letters, and not one of them a labial.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 578:
- Those were his first words of the voyage, and they were spoken with unstuttered labials.
- (music) An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
- 1923, Estey Organ Company, The Philosophy of an Organ Builder, Brattleboro, VT, pages 34–35:
- All organ pipes are divided into two general classes, labial and lingual pipes. The main difference between the two classes is the manner by which the vibrations producing the sound are caused. In labial pipes the column of air entering the pipe under pressure is set in vibration by a fixed obstruction at the mount of the pipe. […] [T]he obstruction at the mouth […] causes the column of air to vibrate. In the lingual or reed pipe, the vibrations are caused by the air passing through a metal reed, which causes the tongue of the reed to vibrate, thereby setting up sympathetic vibrations in the column of air in the pipe.
- (zootomy) Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
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References edit
- “labial”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “labial”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
Abenaki edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French la bière.
Noun edit
labial (no plural)
References edit
- Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial m or f (masculine and feminine plural labials)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
labial f (plural labials)
Further reading edit
- “labial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “labial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “labial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “labial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial (feminine labiale, masculine plural labiaux, feminine plural labiales)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “labial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin labiālis.
Adjective edit
labial m or f (plural labiais)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
labial f (plural labiais)
Further reading edit
- “labial” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin labiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial (strong nominative masculine singular labialer, not comparable)
- labial
Declension edit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist labial | sie ist labial | es ist labial | sie sind labial | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | labialer | labiale | labiales | labiale |
genitive | labialen | labialer | labialen | labialer | |
dative | labialem | labialer | labialem | labialen | |
accusative | labialen | labiale | labiales | labiale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der labiale | die labiale | das labiale | die labialen |
genitive | des labialen | der labialen | des labialen | der labialen | |
dative | dem labialen | der labialen | dem labialen | den labialen | |
accusative | den labialen | die labiale | das labiale | die labialen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein labialer | eine labiale | ein labiales | (keine) labialen |
genitive | eines labialen | einer labialen | eines labialen | (keiner) labialen | |
dative | einem labialen | einer labialen | einem labialen | (keinen) labialen | |
accusative | einen labialen | eine labiale | ein labiales | (keine) labialen |
Derived terms edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial m or f (plural labiais)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
labial f (plural labiais)
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
labial m or n (feminine singular labială, masculine plural labiali, feminine and neuter plural labiale)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | labial | labială | labiali | labiale | ||
definite | labialul | labiala | labialii | labialele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | labial | labiale | labiali | labiale | ||
definite | labialului | labialei | labialilor | labialelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
labial m or f (masculine and feminine plural labiales)
- (relational) lip; labial (of or relating to the lips)
- (phonetics) labial (articulated by the lips)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
labial f (plural labiales)
Further reading edit
- “labial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014