dente
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dente (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin dentem. Compare Portuguese dente and Spanish diente.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dente m (plural dentes)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “dente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “dente” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “dente” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “dente” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “dente” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
dente (plural dentes)
Related terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dentem. Doublet of zanna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dente m (plural denti, diminutive dentìno or dentèllo, augmentative dentóne, pejorative dentàccio, endearing-derogatory dentùccio)
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
dente
References edit
- dente in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
dente
- Alternative form of dint
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
dente
- Alternative form of deynte
Adjective edit
dente
- Alternative form of deynte
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dente m (plural diente)
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 108: “un dente marcio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “dente”, in Schedario Napoletano
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dente m (plural dentes)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dente, from Latin dentem (“tooth”). Compare Galician dente and Spanish diente.
Noun edit
dente m (plural dentes)
- tooth (hard structure found in the jaws of most vertebrates)
- tooth; prong; tine (sharp projection in a tool)
- clove (any of the pieces that make up a bulb of garlic)
Derived terms edit
- armado até os dentes
- bater os dentes
- com unhas e dentes
- dentada
- dentado
- dentadura
- dentar
- dente canino
- dente carniceiro
- dente de coelho
- dente de leite
- dente do juízo
- dente do siso
- dente incisivo
- dente molar
- dente permanente
- dente por dente
- dente pré-molar
- dente queiro
- denteado
- dentezinho (diminutive)
- dentinho (diminutive)
- dentuça
- dentuço
- desdentar
- fada dos dentes
- mostrar os dentes
- olho por olho, dente por dente
- por entre os dentes
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
dente
- inflection of dentar:
See also edit
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
dente m (plural denti)
- Alternative form of zente