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denticulus

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Latin

Etymology

From dēns (tooth) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

denticulus m (genitive denticulī); second declension

  1. diminutive of dēns: a little tooth

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • English: denticule
  • Portuguese: dentículo
  • Spanish: dentículo

References

  • denticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "denticulus", 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)
  • denticulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • denticulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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