The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromlabium“a lip”
- English todaylabium
Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.
Words from the same roots
Latinlabium all →
labialize
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
labium
Today it means: A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side. Full definition →
Latin labium