labial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Borrowing from Medieval Latin labiālis (“of or pertaining to the lips”), from labium (“a lip”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to labium + -al.
Base: labium
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: labials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: On the side facing the lips. See mesial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Furnished with lips.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a labial organ pipe
gloss: A consonant articulated by the lips.
pos: noun
examples: 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
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.
Those were his first words of the voyage, and they were spoken with unstuttered labials.
gloss: An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
pos: noun
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:
lang: Albanian
word: buzor
lang: Arabic
word: شَفَوِيّ
roman: šafawiyy
lang: Arabic
word: شَفَهِيّ
roman: šafahiyy
lang: Armenian
word: շրթնային
roman: šrtʻnayin
lang: Belarusian
word: губны́
roman: hubný
lang: Bulgarian
word: лабиален
roman: labialen
lang: Catalan
word: labial
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 脣的 /唇的
roman: chún de
lang: Czech
word: retný
lang: Dutch
word: labiaal
lang: Faroese
word: varra-
lang: Finnish
word: huuli-
lang: Finnish
word: labiaalinen
lang: French
word: labial
lang: Galician
word: labial
lang: German
word: Lippen-
lang: German
word: labial
lang: Greek
word: χειλικός
roman: cheilikós
lang: Italian
word: labiale
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لێوی
roman: lêwî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: lêvî
lang: Persian
word: لبی
roman: labi
lang: Polish
word: wargowy
lang: Portuguese
word: labial
lang: Punjabi
word: ਹੋਂਠੀ
roman: hoṇṭhī
lang: Russian
word: губно́й
roman: gubnój
lang: Russian
word: лабиа́льный
roman: labiálʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: labial
lang: Ukrainian
word: губни́й
roman: hubnýj