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Etymology[edit]
From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-controlled ones (i.e. teeth)”), because they arrive approximately when one has reached the age of prudence or wisdom.[1] Compare also German Weisheitszahn (“wisdom tooth”), Danish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Swedish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Icelandic vísdómstönn (“wisdom tooth”), Dutch verstandskies (“wisdom tooth”, literally “intellect molar”), German Low German Verstandskuus (“wisdom tooth”, literally “wisdom molar”). Chinese 智齒 (zhìchǐ), Russian зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti), Hebrew שן בינה (shen biná) and Finnish viisaudenhammas also mean “tooth of wisdom”.
wisdom tooth (plural wisdom teeth)
- (dentistry) One of the four (one upper and one lower on each side) rearmost molars in humans, which typically develop between ages 18-24.
Translations[edit]
rearmost molar in humans
- Arabic: دِرْس اَلْعَقْل m (dirs al-ʿaql)
- Egyptian Arabic: درس العقل m (ders el-ʿaʾl)
- Armenian: իմաստության ատամ (imastutʿyan atam)
- Belarusian: зуб му́драсці m (zub múdrasci)
- Bulgarian: мъдре́ц (bg) m (mǎdréc)
- Burmese: အံဆုံး (my) (amhcum:)
- Catalan: queixal del seny (ca) m
- Cebuano: pamuok
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 智慧齒, 智慧齿 (zi3 wai3 ci2)
- Mandarin: 智齒 (zh), 智齿 (zh) (zhìchǐ), 智牙 (zh) (zhìyá)
- Min Nan: 智齒, 智齿 (tì-khí), 後齻 (zh-min-nan), 后齻 (āu-chan)
- Czech: zub moudrosti m, moudrák m (colloquial)
- Danish: visdomstand (da) c
- Dhivehi: އެންމެ އެތެރެ ކޮލުދަތް (en̊me etere koludat̊)
- Dutch: verstandskies (nl) m, (Belgium) wijsheidstand (nl) m
- Esperanto: saĝodento
- Estonian: tarkusehammas
- Faroese: vísdómsjakslur m
- Finnish: viisaudenhammas (fi)
- French: dent de sagesse (fr) f
- Galician: moa do siso f, moa do xuízo f
- Georgian: სიბრძნის კბილი (sibrʒnis ḳbili)
- German: Weisheitszahn (de) m
- Greek: φρονιμίτης (el) m (fronimítis), σωφρονιστήρας (el) m (sofronistíras)
- Ancient: σωφρονιστήρ m (sōphronistḗr)
- Hebrew: שֵׁן בִּינָה f (shen biná)
- Hindi: अकल दाढ़ (akal dāṛh), तीसरे दाढ़ (tīsre dāṛh)
- Hungarian: bölcsességfog (hu)
- Icelandic: endajaxl m, vísdómstönn (is) f, geirjaxl m
- Ido: dento di sajeso (io)
- Indonesian: gigi bungsu (id)
- Irish: fiacail fhorais f
- Italian: dente del giudizio m
- Japanese: 親知らず (おやしらず, oya-shirazu)
- Kazakh: ақыл тіс (aqıl tis)
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