English Explanatory Dictionary

labial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
  2. Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
  3. On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  4. Furnished with lips.
noun
  1. A consonant articulated by the lips.
  2. An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
  3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.

Pronunciation

/ˈleɪ.bi.əl/ /ˈleɪb.jəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-labial.wav

Word forms

labial labials

Etymology

Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.

Synonyms

cheilo-

Derived words

alveololabial anterolabial apicolabial axiolabial basiolabial basolabial bilabial buccolabial cervicolabial dentolabial distolabial endolabial exolabial gingivolabial illabial infralabial inguinolabial interlabial labial-alveolar consonant labial artery labial consonant labial geyser labialisation labialism labiality labialization labialize labialise labially labial-palatal approximant labial-palatal consonant labial pipe linguolabial lorilabial maxillolabial mentolabial mesiolabial mesolabial nasolabial nonlabial orolabial posterolabial postlabial prelabial quadrilabial sublabial superlabial supralabial translabial vaginolabial ventrolabial

Translations

Albanian: buzor Arabic: شَفَوِيّ Arabic: شَفَهِيّ Armenian: շրթնային Belarusian: губны́ Bulgarian: лабиален Catalan: labial Chinese Mandarin: 脣的 /唇的 Czech: retný Dutch: labiaal Faroese: varra- Finnish: huuli- Finnish: labiaalinen French: labial Galician: labial German: Lippen- German: labial Greek: χειλικός Italian: labiale Central Kurdish: لێوی Northern Kurdish: lêvî Persian: لبی Polish: wargowy Portuguese: labial Punjabi: ਹੋਂਠੀ Russian: губно́й Russian: лабиа́льный Spanish: labial Ukrainian: губни́й
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