单词 | bilabial |
释义 | bilabialadj. 1. = bilabiate adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > having two bilabiate1785 bilabial1863 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. i. v. 160 Having a bilabial form. 2. Phonetics. Of certain consonants (e.g. p, b, m, v, w): produced by the juncture or apposition of the lips. Also n., a bilabial consonant. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > labial lip-letter1591 labial1650 bilabial1894 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [adjective] > labial labial1590 labialized1856 bilabial1894 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. 47 At some time before the fifth cent. a.d...initial v..seems to have passed from the bilabial spirant (Spanish b) to the labio-dental spirant (our v). 1899 W. Rippmann tr. W. Vietor Elem. Phonetics 82 The labio-dentals and the bilabials. 1899 W. Rippmann tr. W. Vietor Elem. Phonetics 90 In general the lip stops are bilabial, i.e. formed by a closure of both lips. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 830/1 The Latin V..was not a labio-dental spirant like the English v, but a bilabial semivowel like the English w. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1863 |
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