dentifrice

English

Etymology

From Middle French dentifrice.

Noun

dentifrice (countable and uncountable, plural dentifrices)

1. Toothpaste or any other substance, such as powder, for cleaning the teeth.

Translations

any substance for cleaning the teeth

• Bulgarian: паста за зъби f (pasta za zǎbi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潔齒劑／洁齿剂, 洁齿剂 (jiéchǐjì)

• Finnish: hampaiden puhdistusaine
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• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: dentífrico (es) m

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dentifricium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.ti.fʁis/

Noun

dentifrice m (plural dentifrices)

1. toothpaste

Further reading

• “dentifrice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.