The story
- Latin · derived fromlabium“lip”
- English todaylabialize
labial (from Latin labium (“lip”)) + -ize (“causative suffix”)
Words from the same roots
Latinlabium all →
labium
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
labialize
Today it means: To round, make (a sound, notably a consonant) labial. Full definition →
Latin labium