dental
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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".
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛntəl/, /ˈdɛntl̩/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɛntl̩/, [ˈdɛn(ɾ)ɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃ɫ̩]
- Hyphenation: den‧tal
- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
AdjectiveEdit
dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)
- Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care.
- Of or concerning dentistry.
- (phonetics) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in dental fricative.
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NounEdit
dental (plural dentals)
- (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- (cleaning and polishing of animal's teeth): prophy
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CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental (masculine and feminine plural dentals)
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Further readingEdit
- “dental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dental” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “dental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent + -al.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental (feminine singular dentale, masculine plural dentaux, feminine plural dentales)
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Further readingEdit
- “dental” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist dental | sie ist dental | es ist dental | sie sind dental | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | dentaler | dentale | dentales | dentale |
genitive | dentalen | dentaler | dentalen | dentaler | |
dative | dentalem | dentaler | dentalem | dentalen | |
accusative | dentalen | dentale | dentales | dentale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der dentale | die dentale | das dentale | die dentalen |
genitive | des dentalen | der dentalen | des dentalen | der dentalen | |
dative | dem dentalen | der dentalen | dem dentalen | den dentalen | |
accusative | den dentalen | die dentale | das dentale | die dentalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein dentaler | eine dentale | ein dentales | (keine) dentalen |
genitive | eines dentalen | einer dentalen | eines dentalen | (keiner) dentalen | |
dative | einem dentalen | einer dentalen | einem dentalen | (keinen) dentalen | |
accusative | einen dentalen | eine dentale | ein dentales | (keine) dentalen |
InterlinguaEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental (not comparable)
- dental, of or pertaining to the teeth
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OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.
AdjectiveEdit
dental m (feminine singular dentala, masculine plural dentals, feminine plural dentalas)
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PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental m or f (plural dentais, comparable)
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Further readingEdit
- “dental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Serbo-CroatianEdit
NounEdit
dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)
- a dental
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dental (plural dentales)
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Further readingEdit
- “dental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.