dental

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

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛn.təl/, [ˈdɛnɾəɫ], [ˈdɛɾ̃əɫ], [ˈdɛnəɫ], [ˈdɛnɾɫ̩], [ˈdɛɾ̃ɫ̩], [ˈdɛnɫ̩]
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

dental (comparative more dental, superlative most dental)

1. (relational) Of or concerning the teeth.

   Synonyms: toothly, teethly

   dental care

2. (dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
3. (phonetics) Articulated with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or with the blade of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, so that the tip of the tongue rests near the teeth.

   dental fricative

4. (phonetics, uncommon) Articulated with the tip or blade of the tongue: coronal.

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.

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”). By surface analysis, dent +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dənˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [denˈtal]
• Rhymes: -al

dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentals)

1. dental

• “dental”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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 dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”). By surface analysis, dent +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

• Audio:

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

1. (linguistics) dental

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

dental ngal

1. (Pulaar) union, confederation, rally

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

From Medieval Latin dentālis.

• IPA^(key): /dɛnˈtaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

dental (strong nominative masculine singular dentaler, not comparable)

1. dental

   Hypernym: organisch

2. (phonetics) dental

   Hyponyms: interdental, labiodental, lamino-dental

dental (not comparable)

1. dental (of or pertaining to the teeth)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”).

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

1. dental

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”). By surface analysis, dente +‎ -al.

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

dental m or f (plural dentais, not comparable)

1. (anatomy, dentistry) dental (of or concerning teeth, cleaning teeth)
2. (phonetics) dental

dental f (plural dentais)

1. (phonetics) a dental consonant

dental m (plural dentais)

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• “dental”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “dental” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “dental”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “dental”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “dental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French dental, from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”).

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

1. dental

From Medieval Latin dentālis.

dèntāl m inan (Cyrillic spelling дѐнта̄л)

1. a dental

   Synonym: zȗbnīk

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns (“a tooth”).

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

dental m or f (masculine and feminine plural dentales)

1. dental

• “dental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024