labia

Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪbiə

labia pl (normally plural, singular labium)

1. (anatomy) The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.

   Hypernym: genitals

   Hyponyms: labia majora, labia minora

   • 2023, Yomi Adegoke, The List, 4th Estate, page 168:

     She wiped the warm wax on the left side of Ola’s outer labia and placed a white strip on the last tuft of hair.

labia

1. plural of labium

Though usually used as a plural, this noun is also attested as a singular with plural labias or labiae.

• See also Thesaurus:labia

• labial
• labium

• “labia”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• baila, Alabi, Albia, Abila

Learned borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /laˈbia/ [laˈbi.a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: la‧bi‧a

labia (plural labia-labia)

1. (anatomy) labia: The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vagina

   Synonyms: bibir kemaluan, bibir vagina

• “labia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• labea (feminine noun)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.bi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.bi.a]

labia f (genitive labiae); first declension

1. feminine of labium

First-declension noun.

• Italian: labbia
• → English: labia

labia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of labium

• “labia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Abali

Borrowed from Latin labia.

labia oblique singular, f (oblique plural labias, nominative singular labia, nominative plural labias)

1. (10th century) lip
   • circa 980, La Vie de Saint Léger

   La labia li ad restaurat

   He [=God] restored his lip to him

• The Vie de Saint Léger citation is the only known recorded usage of the term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlabja/ [ˈla.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: la‧bia

labia f (plural labias)

1. gift of the gab

   Synonym: pico de oro

• “labia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024