labium

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

• enPR: lā'bē-əm
• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.bi.əm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiəm

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.

• labrum
• saccolabium

• “labium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “labium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Malibu, malibu

labium m (plural labiums)

1. (zoology) labium

• “labium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• labia, labea

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.um/, [ˈɫ̪äbiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.bi.um/, [ˈläːbium]

labium n (genitive labiī or labī); second declension

1. (anatomy) a lip

   Synonym: labrum

2. an axle or some other part of an oil press

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• labiālis (adjective)
• labiō (verb)
• labiōsus, labeōsus (adjective)
• sublabium

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• labium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French labium.

labium n (uncountable)

1. labium