dental

Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.təl/, /ˈdɛn.tl̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.təl/, /ˈdɛn.tl̩/, [ˈdɛn.(ɾ)əɫ], [ˈdɛɾ̃.əɫ], [ˈdɛn.əɫ], [ˈdɛn.(ɾ)ɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃.ɫ̩], [ˈdɛn.ɫ̩]
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

1. (relational) Of or concerning the teeth.

   dental care

   Synonyms: toothly, teethly

2. (dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
3. (phonetics) Made with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or the alveolar ridge.

   dental fricative

• dentist
• dentulous
• edentulous

dental (plural dentals)

1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.

   Synonym: prophy

2. (phonetics) A dental sound.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:

     'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded.

• “dental”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “dental”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• lanted

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /dənˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /denˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al

dental (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

1. dental

• interdental

• dent

• “dental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “dental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

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

1. (linguistics) dental

• dent
• dentaire

• “dental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

dental (strong nominative masculine singular dentaler, not comparable)

1. dental

dental (not comparable)

1. dental, of or pertaining to the teeth

• dente

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

dental m (feminine singular dentala, masculine plural dentals, feminine plural dentalas)

1. dental

• dent

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: den‧tal

dental m or f (plural dentais, not comparable)

1. dental

• dente

• “dental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From French dental.

dental m or n (feminine singular dentală, masculine plural dentali, feminine and neuter plural dentale)

1. dental

dèntāl m (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

1. a dental

• zȗbnīk

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentalis, from Latin dens.

• IPA^(key): /denˈtal/ [d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: den‧tal

dental (plural dentales)

1. dental

• “dental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014