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labes

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English

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Noun

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labes pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) Labia.

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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    From lābor (to waver, fall) + -ēs.[1]

    Noun

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    lābēs f (genitive lābis); third declension

    1. fall, collapse
    2. subsidence
    3. fault, defect
      sine orīginis lābewithout the stain of original sin
    4. misfortune
    Declension
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    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    singular plural
    nominative lābēs lābēs
    genitive lābis lābium
    dative lābī lābibus
    accusative lābem lābēs
    lābīs
    ablative lābe lābibus
    vocative lābēs lābēs
    Derived terms
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    Descendants
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    • Catalan: llau, allau
    • Italian: labe
    • Spanish: labe

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    labēs

    1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of labō

    References

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    1. ^ 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

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    • 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, 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.