dental

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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/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛntl̩/, [ˈdɛn(ɾ)ɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃ɫ̩]
• Hyphenation: den‧tal
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

AdjectiveEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• (pertaining to teeth): toothly, teethly

Derived termsEdit

• dental pick
• dental floss

Related termsEdit

• dentist
• dentulous
• edentulous

TranslationsEdit

of or concerning the teeth

• Armenian: ատամնային (atamnayin)
• Bulgarian: зъбен (bg) (zǎben)
• Catalan: dental
• Czech: zubní (cs)
• Finnish: dentaali (fi)
• French: dentaire (fr)
• German: Zahn- (de)
• Greek: οδοντικός (el) (odontikós)
• Icelandic: tann- (is)

• Irish: déadach
• Italian: dentario (it) m, dentale (it) m, f
• Polish: zębowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: dental (pt), dentário (pt)
• Russian: зубно́й (ru) (zubnój)
• Spanish: dental (es)
• Swedish: tand-
• Welsh: deintiol (cy)

of or concerning dentistry

• Armenian: ատամնաբուժական (hy) (atamnabužakan)
• Bulgarian: зъболекарски (zǎbolekarski)
• Catalan: dental
• Czech: zubařský, stomatologický
• Finnish: hammaslääketieteellinen, dentaali-
• French: dentaire (fr)
• German: zahnärztlich (de)
• Greek: οδοντιατρικός (el) (odontiatrikós)

• Irish: déadach
• Italian: dentario (it) m, dentale (it) m, f
• Polish: dentystyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: dentário (pt)
• Russian: стоматологи́ческий (ru) (stomatologíčeskij)
• Swedish: tandvårds-
• Welsh: deintyddol (cy)

phonetics

• Arabic: أَسْنَانِيّ‎‎ (ʾasnāniyy)
• Armenian: ատամնային (atamnayin)
• Catalan: dental
• Czech: dentála f, zubnice (cs) f
• Finnish: dentaali (fi)
• French: dental (fr)
• Georgian: კბილისმიერი (ḳbilismieri), დენტალური (denṭaluri)
• Greek: οδοντικός (el) (odontikós)
• Icelandic: tannmæltur
• Irish: déadach

• Italian: dentale (it) m, f
• Japanese: 歯音
• Korean: 치음(齒音) (chieum)
• Polish: zębowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: dental (pt)
• Russian: зубно́й (ru) (zubnój)
• Sanskrit: दन्त्य (sa) (dantya)
• Spanish: dental (es)
• Swedish: dental (sv)
• Welsh: deintiol (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: (3) ^{(please verify)} dental (sh) m, (3) ^{(please verify)} zubnik (sh) m

NounEdit

dental (plural dentals)

1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
2. (phonetics) A dental sound.

SynonymsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

cleaning of animal's teeth

• Finnish: raspaus (horse)

dental sound

• Finnish: dentaali (fi)
• German: Zahnlaut (de) m

• Irish: déadach m
• Portuguese: dental (pt) f

AnagramsEdit

• lanted

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

dental (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

1. dental

Related termsEdit

• dent

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. (linguistics) dental

Related termsEdit

• dent
• dentaire

Further readingEdit

• “dental” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aːl

AdjectiveEdit

dental (not comparable)

1. dental

DeclensionEdit

Declension of dental

number & gender		singular			plural
		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

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dẽˈtaɫ/

AdjectiveEdit

dental m, f (plural dentais, comparable)

1. dental

Related termsEdit

• dente

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

NounEdit

dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

1. a dentale

DeclensionEdit

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

SynonymsEdit

• zȗbnīk

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

AdjectiveEdit

dental (plural dentales)

1. dental

Related termsEdit

• diente