lèvre

From Middle French lévre, from Old French levre, earlier lavras (plural) (ca. 980), from Vulgar Latin labra, originally a neuter plural of Latin labrum, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down, droop”). An Old and Middle French variant, leffre, may have blended with Old High German leffur (“lip”).

• IPA^(key): /lɛvʁ/

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lèvre f (plural lèvres)

1. lip

• pendu à ses lèvres

• “lèvre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• lever

From Old French levre, earlier lavras (plural), from Vulgar Latin labra, originally a neuter plural of Latin labrum (“lip”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down, droop”).

lèvre f (plural lèvres)

1. lip