premolar

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ molar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

Noun

premolar (plural premolars)

1. A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (Latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares)
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     He opened and let out a hogo of medicinal rum and beer. The bad tooth was a premolar.

Synonyms

• (a tooth): bicuspid

Translations

tooth

• Arabic: نَاجِذ m (nājiḏ), ضَاحِك m (ḍāḥik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小臼齒／小臼齿 (zh) (xiǎojiùchǐ)

• Czech: třenový zub m, třenák m (colloquial)
• Esperanto: antaŭmolaro, premolaro
• Finnish: välihammas (fi)
• French: prémolaire (fr) f
• Georgian: მცირე ძირითადი კბილი (mcire ʒiritadi ḳbili), პრემოლარი (ṗremolari)
• German: Prämolar (de) m, Vormahlzahn m
• Greek: προγόμφιος (el) m (progómfios)
• Hebrew: מַלְתָּעָה (he) f (malta'á), קְדַם טוֹחֶנֶת f (qdam toḥenét)
• Icelandic: forjaxl m, framjaxl m
• Italian: premolare (it) m
• Japanese: 小臼歯 (ja) (shōkyūshi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: diranê pêşkursî m

• Maori: niho pūrākau, niho pū
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: premolar m

  Nynorsk: premolar m, framjeksel f

• Polish: przedtrzonowiec (pl) m
• Romanian: premolar (ro) m
• Russian: премоля́р (ru) m (premoljár)
• Slovak: črenový zub
• Tagalog: talubagang
• Thai: ฟันกรามน้อย (fan-graam-nɔ́ɔi)

Adjective

premolar (not comparable)

1. Before a molar tooth, either in physical position or in its time of development; deciduous.

Anagrams

• premoral

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

premolar m (definite singular premolaren, indefinite plural premolarer, definite plural premolarene)

1. premolar

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

premolar m (definite singular premolaren, indefinite plural premolarar, definite plural premolarane)

1. premolar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French prémolaire.

Noun

premolar m (plural premolari)

1. premolar

Declension

Declension of premolar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) premolar	premolarul	(niște) premolari	premolarii
genitive/dative	(unui) premolar	premolarului	(unor) premolari	premolarilor
vocative	premolarule		premolarilor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾemoˈlaɾ/ [pɾe.moˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧mo‧lar

Adjective

premolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural premolares)

1. premolar

Further reading

• “premolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16