labes
English
Noun
labes pl (plural only)
- (slang) Labia.
Anagrams
- Ables, Basel, Basle, Blase, Bleas, Sabel, Sable, ables, albes, baels, bales, beals, blase, blasé, sable, saleb
Latin
Etymology 1
From Latin lābor.
Noun
lābēs f (genitive lābis); third declension
- fall, collapse
- subsidence
- fault, defect
- misfortune
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lābēs | lābēs |
| Genitive | lābis | lābium |
| Dative | lābī | lābibus |
| Accusative | lābem | lābēs lābīs |
| Ablative | lābe | lābibus |
| Vocative | lābēs | lābēs |
Derived terms
- labīna
Descendants
- Catalan: llau, allau
- Italian: labe
- Spanish: labe
Verb
labēs
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of labō
References
- “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