dens

See also: dens.

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnz/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnz

Noun

dens

  1. plural of den

Verb

dens

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of den

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dens (“tooth”).

Noun

dens

  1. (anatomy) The strong odontoid process of the axis.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin densus.

Adjective

dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)

  1. dense, thick

Further reading

Danish

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, objective den)

  1. its, possessive form of den

See also

Latin

dēns (a tooth)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn), Sanskrit दत् (dát) and Old English tōþ (English tooth).

Pronunciation

Noun

dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension

  1. tooth
    • Paraphrase of Proverbs, 30:14
      pro dentibus gladios habent
      They have swords for teeth.
  2. (by extension) a spike, prong, or any tooth-like projection
  3. (figuratively) envy, ill will

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative dēns dentēs
genitive dentis dentium
dative dentī dentibus
accusative dentem dentēs
ablative dente dentibus
vocative dēns dentēs

Derived terms

  • dentilegus
  • dentiō
  • dentītiō
  • dentix

Descendants

References

  • dens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • dens in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dens in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

dens

  1. its (possessive)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.

Adjective

dens

  1. dense
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