labes

English

Noun

labes pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) Labia.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

From lābor +‎ -ēs.

Noun

lābēs f (genitive lābis); third declension

  1. fall, collapse
  2. subsidence
  3. fault, defect
  4. misfortune
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lābēs lābēs
Genitive lābis lābium
Dative lābī lābibus
Accusative lābem lābēs
lābīs
Ablative lābe lābibus
Vocative lābēs lābēs
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Catalan: llau, allau
  • Italian: labe
  • Spanish: labe

Verb

labēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of labō

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