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Definition of Labial consonant

1. Noun. A consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Labial Consonant

Literary usage of Labial consonant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... who wished to have a special symbol to denote the palatal consonant y, into which t readily passes, just as jo denotes the labial consonant into which ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"But Dr. Murray had been unable to make anything of them beyond my first rough appreciation, when I sometimes, under the influence of a labial consonant, ..."

3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1877)
"But Dr. Murray had been unable to make anything of them beyond my first rough appreciation, when I sometimes, under the influence of a labial consonant, ..."

4. The Pronunciation of Greek and Latin by Edgar Howard Sturtevant (1920)
"... I, or 8 stood before a labial consonant. In republican times the tendency was to write such words with u, whereas i was preferred in imperial times, ..."

5. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: Including an by Henry Sweet (1874)
"But Dr. Murray had been unable to make anything of them beyond my first rough appreciation, when I sometimes, under the influence of a labial consonant, ..."

6. A Hand-book on Christian Baptism by Richard Ingham (1865)
"... the terminations, and you have the syllabic bap; change the intermediate vowel a into o, and the labial consonant b into the labial consonant p, ..."

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