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English
Noun
labes pl (plural only)
- (slang) Labia.
Anagrams
- blasé, blase, ables, Sabel, sable, Sable, albes, bales, Ables, Basel, Blase, beals, Basle, baels, saleb, Bleas, Sablé
Latin
Etymology 1
From lābor (“to waver, fall”) + -ēs.
Noun
lābēs f (genitive lābis); third declension
- fall, collapse
- subsidence
- fault, defect
- sine orīginis lābe ― without the stain of original sin
- misfortune
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
labēs
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of labō
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “labō, -āre (> Derivatives > lābēs, -is)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 319-20
Further reading
- “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.