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Definition of Labiodental
1. Noun. A consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth.
Definition of Labiodental
1. a. Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v.
Definition of Labiodental
1. Adjective. (phonetics) articulated with the lower lip and upper teeth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Labiodental
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Labiodental
1. Relating to the lips and the teeth; denoting certain letters the sound of which is formed by both lips and teeth. Origin: Labio-+ L. Dens, tooth (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labiodental
Literary usage of Labiodental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phonetics of the New High German Language by Arwid Johannson (1906)
"The labiodental place of interception is produced by the underlip and the upper
teeth (Fig. XIV). This class is represented in German by: i)'1 (as in Apfel ..."
2. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"The existence of the labiodental pronunciation in much of western Romance ...
The development of the labiodental articulation would have strengthened the ..."
3. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"Quintilian's account does not mention the labiodental character of the sound (xii.
... Bilabial f naturally tends to become labiodental, because by bringing ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"LF labiodental furrow. The other lettering as in Fig. 938. ... Of the two strands
thus formed, the labial forms the labiodental lamina; while the other, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia by Herbert Treadwell Wade (1922)
"It should be noted that the value of the Greek symbol was the bilabial voiced
sound of tc, and not the labiodental voiceless sound of our modern F. Already ..."
6. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"In the oldest texts (especially Ep.) b also designates the sound of a sonant
spirant, either labial or labiodental. It was then pronounced like the English ..."
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