French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃.tal/
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Adjective

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dentale

  1. feminine singular of dental

Noun

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dentale f (plural dentales)

  1. (linguistics) dental consonant

Noun

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dentale m (plural dentales)

  1. any of the tusk shells in the family Dentaliidae

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German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dentale

  1. inflection of dental:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin or Late Latin dentālis, derived from Latin dēns (tooth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts. By surface analysis, dent(e) (tooth) +‎ -ale (-al, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /denˈta.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: den‧tà‧le

Adjective

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dentale (plural dentali)

  1. (anatomy, relational) tooth; dental
    Synonym: dentario
  2. (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)
    La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.
    The letter T represents a dental consonant.

Noun

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dentale f (plural dentali)

  1. (phonetics) a dental speech sound
  2. ploughshare
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Latin

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Adjective

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dentāle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dentālis

References

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  • dentale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dentale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • dentale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

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Verb

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dentale

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dentar combined with le