dental

English

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛntəl/, /ˈdɛntl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛntl̩/, [ˈdɛn(ɾ)ɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃ɫ̩]
• 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

• (pertaining to teeth): toothly, teethly

Derived terms

• dental pick
• dental floss
• interdental

Related terms

• dentist
• dentulous
• edentulous

Translations

of or concerning the teeth

• Arabic: سِنِّيّ‎ (sinniyy)
• Armenian: ատամնային (atamnayin)
• Belarusian: зубны́ (zubný)
• Bulgarian: зъбен (bg) (zǎben)
• Catalan: dental
• Czech: zubní (cs)
• Finnish: dentaalinen (fi)
• French: dentaire (fr)
• Galician: dental
• German: Zahn- (de)
• Greek: οδοντικός (el) (odontikós)
• Icelandic: tann- (is)
• Irish: déadach
• Italian: dentario (it), dentale (it)
• Macedonian: забен (zaben)

• Polish: zębowy (pl)
• Portuguese: dental (pt), dentário (pt)
• Romanian: dentar (ro)
• Russian: зубно́й (ru) (zubnój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зу̑бнӣ

  Roman: zȗbnī (sh)

• Slovak: zubný (sk)
• Slovene: zoben
• Spanish: dental (es)
• Swedish: tand-
• Ukrainian: зубни́й (zubnýj)
• Welsh: deintiol (cy)

of or concerning dentistry

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

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

phonetics

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

• Italian: dentale (it)
• Japanese: 歯音
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 치음(齒音) (chieum)
• Polish: zębowy (pl)
• 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

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

cleaning of animal's teeth

• Finnish: raspaus (horse)

dental sound

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

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

Anagrams

• lanted

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /dənˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /denˈtal/

Adjective

dental (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

1. dental

Derived terms

• interdental

Related terms

• dent

Further reading

• “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.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

Adjective

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

1. (linguistics) dental

Related terms

• dent
• dentaire

Further reading

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

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

1. dental

Declension

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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Interlingua

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

1. dental, of or pertaining to the teeth

Related terms

• dente

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dẽˈtaɫ/

Adjective

dental m or f (plural dentais, comparable)

1. dental

Related terms

• dente

Further reading

• “dental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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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

• zȗbnīk

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

dental (plural dentales)

1. dental

Derived terms

• hilo dental
• interdental
• seda dental

 

Related terms

• diente

Further reading

• “dental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.