| 释义 |
bilabial, a.|baɪˈleɪbɪəl|
1. = next.
1862Dana 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.
1894W. 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). 1899W. Rippmann Elem. Phonetics 82 The labio-dentals and the bilabials. Ibid. 90 In general the lip stops are bilabial, i.e. formed by a closure of both lips. 1911Encycl. 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. |