dentale
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dentale
NounEdit
dentale f (plural dentales)
- (linguistics) dental consonant
NounEdit
dentale m (plural dentales)
- any of the tusk shells in the family Dentaliidae
Further readingEdit
- “dentale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dentale
- inflection of dental:
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dentale (plural dentali)
- (anatomy, relational) tooth; dental
- Synonym: dentario
- (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)
- La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.
- The letter T represents a dental consonant.
NounEdit
dentale f (plural dentali)
- (phonetics) a dental speech sound
- ploughshare
Related termsEdit
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LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
dentāle
ReferencesEdit
- “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