dental

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dental, or from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁d-ent- (“tooth”), participle of *h₁ed- (“eat”), perhaps from an older sense "bite".

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛntəl/, /ˈdɛntl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɛntl̩/, [ˈdɛn(ɾ)ɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃ɫ̩]
  • Hyphenation: den‧tal
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

  1. Of or concerning the teeth, as in dental care.
  2. Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. (phonetics) Made with the tongue touching the teeth, as in dental fricative.

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Noun

dental (plural dentals)

  1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  2. (phonetics) A dental sound.

Synonyms
  • (cleaning and polishing of animal's teeth): prophy

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dental (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

  1. dental

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens. Equivalent to dent +‎ -al.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

Adjective

dental (feminine singular dentale, masculine plural dentaux, feminine plural dentales)

  1. (linguistics) dental

Further reading

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

  1. dental

Declension
Declension of dental
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist dental sie ist dental es ist dental sie sind dental
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative dentaler dentale dentales dentale
genitive dentalen dentaler dentalen dentaler
dative dentalem dentaler dentalem dentalen
accusative dentalen dentale dentales dentale
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der dentale die dentale das dentale die dentalen
genitive des dentalen der dentalen des dentalen der dentalen
dative dem dentalen der dentalen dem dentalen den dentalen
accusative den dentalen die dentale das dentale die dentalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein dentaler eine dentale ein dentales (keine) dentalen
genitive eines dentalen einer dentalen eines dentalen (keiner) dentalen
dative einem dentalen einer dentalen einem dentalen (keinen) dentalen
accusative einen dentalen eine dentale ein dentales (keine) dentalen

Interlingua

Adjective

dental (not comparable)

  1. dental, of or pertaining to the teeth

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dental m or f (plural dentais, comparable)

  1. dental

Further reading
  • “dental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

  1. a dentale

Declension
Declension of dental
singular plural
nominative dental dentali
genitive dentala dentala
dative dentalu dentalima
accusative dental dentale
vocative dentale dentali
locative dentalu dentalima
instrumental dentalom dentalima

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /denˈtal/, [d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al]

Adjective

dental (plural dentales)

  1. dental

Derived terms

Further reading
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