dentale

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

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dentale

1. feminine singular of dental

dentale f (plural dentales)

1. (linguistics) dental consonant

dentale m (plural dentales)

1. any of the tusk shells in the family Dentaliidae

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

• dealent

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• Rhymes: -aːlə

dentale

1. inflection of dental:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin dentālis, derived from Latin dēns (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts. By surface analysis, dent(e) (“tooth”) +‎ -ale (“-al”, adjectival derivational suffix).

• IPA^(key): /denˈta.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: den‧tà‧le

dentale m or f (plural dentali)

1. (anatomy, relational) tooth; dental

   Synonym: dentario

2. (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)

   La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.

   The letter T represents a dental consonant.

dentale f (plural dentali)

1. (phonetics) a dental speech sound
2. ploughshare

• dentario
• dente
• labiodentale

• al dente, aldente, tendale

dentāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dentālis

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

dentale

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dentar combined with le