dentifrangibulum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Coined by Plautus, from dēns (“tooth”) + frangō (“break”) + -bulum (suffix forming instrument nouns).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /den.ti.franˈɡi.bu.lum/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪ɪfräŋˈɡɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /den.ti.franˈd͡ʒi.bu.lum/, [d̪en̪t̪ifrän̠ʲˈd͡ʒiːbulum]
Noun edit
dentifrangibulum n (genitive dentifrangibulī); second declension
- (hapax, humorous) fist
- c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 594–596:
- Pist. At scīn quam īrācundus siem? Nē tibi hercle haud longē est os ab īnfortūniō, ita dentifrangibula haec meīs manibus gestiunt.
- Pist. Do you know how short-tempered I am? Your mouth, by Hercules, is hardly far away from a mishap, so much are these fists stirring in my hands.
- Pist. At scīn quam īrācundus siem? Nē tibi hercle haud longē est os ab īnfortūniō, ita dentifrangibula haec meīs manibus gestiunt.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dentifrangibulum | dentifrangibula |
| Genitive | dentifrangibulī | dentifrangibulōrum |
| Dative | dentifrangibulō | dentifrangibulīs |
| Accusative | dentifrangibulum | dentifrangibula |
| Ablative | dentifrangibulō | dentifrangibulīs |
| Vocative | dentifrangibulum | dentifrangibula |
Noun edit
dentifrangibulum
Related terms edit
References edit
- “dentĭfrangĭbŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dentĭfrangĭbŭlum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dentifrangibulus” in volume 5,1, column 549, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present