Labeo

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From Latin labeō (“having large lips”).

Labeo m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cyprinidae – certain carps from Africa and Asia, the labeos.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Cypriniformes - order; Cyprinoidea - superfamily; Cyprinidae - family

• (genus): Labeo niloticus (Nile carp) - type species

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From labeō (“person with large lips”), from labium (“lip”) +‎ -ō (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.be.oː/, [ˈɫ̪äbeoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.be.o/, [ˈläːbeo]

Labeō m sg (genitive Labeōnis); third declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Antistia, Pacuvia, and others.

   Marcus Antistius Labeo

    

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Labeo2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Labeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.