dental

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dental, or from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁d-ent- (“tooth”), participle of *h₁ed- (“eat”), perhaps from an older sense "bite".

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: den‧tal
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

  1. Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care.
  2. Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. (phonetics) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in dental fricative.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

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Noun

dental (plural dentals)

  1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  2. (phonetics) A dental sound.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
      'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded.

Synonyms

  • (cleaning and polishing of animal's teeth): prophy

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

  1. dental

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dental (feminine dentale, masculine plural dentaux, feminine plural dentales)

  1. (linguistics) dental

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

  1. dental

Declension

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Interlingua

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

  1. dental, of or pertaining to the teeth

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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  1. dental

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

  1. a dentale

Declension

Declension of dental
singular plural
nominative dental dentali
genitive dentala dentala
dative dentalu dentalima
accusative dental dentale
vocative dentale dentali
locative dentalu dentalima
instrumental dentalom dentalima

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /denˈtal/ [d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al

Adjective

dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentales)

  1. dental

Derived terms

Further reading

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