dens
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
dens
Verb[edit]
dens
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of den.
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Latin dens (“a tooth”). Doublet of dent and tooth.
Noun[edit]
dens (plural dentes)
- (anatomy) A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.
- Synonym: odontoid process
Translations[edit]
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “dens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cornish[edit]
Noun[edit]
dens m pl
References[edit]
- Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
- 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.31)
Danish[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
dens (nominative den, objective den)
See also[edit]
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), Sanskrit दत् (dát), Lithuanian dantìs, Old English tōþ (English tooth), Armenian ատամ (atam).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ɛns]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun[edit]
dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension
- (anatomy) a tooth
- (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
- (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
- tooth of a destroying power
Inflection[edit]
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēns | dentēs |
| Genitive | dentis | dentium |
| Dative | dentī | dentibus |
| Accusative | dentem | dentēs dentīs |
| Ablative | dente | dentibus |
| Vocative | dēns | dentēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: dinti, dinte
- Asturian: diente
- Catalan: dent
- Dalmatian: diant
- → English: dens
- → Esperanto: dento
- Franco-Provençal: dent
- French: dent
- Friulian: dint
- Galician: dente
- → Interlingua: dente
- Italian: dente
- Neapolitan: dente
- Occitan: dent
- Picard: dint
- Piedmontese: dent
- Portuguese: dente
- Romanian: dinte
- Romansch: dent
- Sardinian: dènte
- Sicilian: denti
- Spanish: diente
- Venetian: dénte
- Walloon: dint
References[edit]
- “dens”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “dens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “dens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
dens (nominative den, oblique den)
See also[edit]
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
| Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
| masculine (person) | han | han/ham | hans | |||||
| feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
| masculine (noun) | ||||||||
| neuter(noun) | det | dets | ||||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
| Second | – | dere | dere | deres | ||||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | ||||
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Contraction of the Latin de intus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Preposition[edit]
dens
References[edit]
- Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 54.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.
Adjective[edit]
dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)
Declension[edit]
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- la:Anatomy
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- la:Teeth
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