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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
  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’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.