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Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (a tooth) +‎ -ālis (-al, adjectival suffix).

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dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

  1. (relational) Of or concerning the teeth.
    Synonyms: toothly, teethly
    dental care
  2. (dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. (phonetics) Articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or with the blade of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, so that the tip of the tongue rests near the teeth.
    dental fricative
  4. (phonetics, uncommon) Articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue: coronal.

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dental (plural dentals)

  1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
    Synonym: prophy
  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.

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth). By surface analysis, dent +‎ -al.

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dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

  1. dental

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French

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth). By surface analysis, dent +‎ -al.

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

  1. (linguistics) dental
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Fula

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dental ngal

  1. (Pulaar) union, confederation, rally
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  • M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin dentālis.

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dental (strong nominative masculine singular dentaler, not comparable)

  1. dental
    Hypernym: organisch
  2. (phonetics) dental
    Hyponyms: interdental, labiodental, lamino-dental

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dental (not comparable)

  1. dental (of or pertaining to the teeth)
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Occitan

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth).

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dental m (feminine singular dentala, masculine plural dentals, feminine plural dentalas)

  1. dental
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Portuguese

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth). By surface analysis, dente +‎ -al.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: den‧tal

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dental m or f (plural dentais, not comparable)

  1. (anatomy, dentistry) dental (of or concerning teeth, cleaning teeth)
  2. (phonetics) dental
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dental f (plural dentais)

  1. (phonetics) a dental consonant

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dental m (plural dentais)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French dental, from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth).

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dental m or n (feminine singular dentală, masculine plural dentali, feminine and neuter plural dentale)

  1. dental

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Serbo-Croatian

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From Medieval Latin dentālis.

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dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

  1. a dental
    Synonym: zȗbnīk

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Spanish

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (a tooth).

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  • IPA(key): /denˈtal/ [d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: den‧tal

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dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentales)

  1. dental

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