dentifrangibulus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Plautus, seemingly from dentifrangibulum by personification and transfer from the neuter gender to the masculine, from dēns (“tooth”) + frangō (“break”) + -bulum.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /den.ti.franˈɡi.bu.lus/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪ɪfräŋˈɡɪbʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /den.ti.franˈd͡ʒi.bu.lus/, [d̪en̪t̪ifrän̠ʲˈd͡ʒiːbulus]
Noun[edit]
dentifrangibulus m (genitive dentifrangibulī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “dentĭfrangĭbŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dentĭfrangĭbŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dentifrangibulus” in volume 5,1, column 549, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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