dens

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnz/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnz

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dens

  1. plural of den

Verb

dens

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of den.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Latin dens (a tooth). Doublet of dent and tooth.

Noun

dens (plural dentes)

  1. (anatomy) A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.
    Synonym: odontoid process
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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. dense, thick

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Cornish

Noun

dens m pl

  1. plural of dans (tooth)

References

  • Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
  • Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF), 2018, published 2018, page 31

Danish

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, objective den)

  1. its, possessive form of den

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Latin

Dēns (a tooth)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), Sanskrit दत् (dát), Lithuanian dantìs, Old English tōþ (English tooth), Armenian ատամ (atam).

Pronunciation

Noun

dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) a tooth
    • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.77–78:
      nec procul ā stabulīs audet discēdere, sīquā
      excussa est avidī dentibus agna lupī.
      Nor lamb dare to withdraw far from the sheep-folds, if it was ever torn from the teeth of a hungry wolf.
      (The flexibility of Latin word order allows Ovid to heighten tension by enjoining the words for lamb and wolf. Translations vary; was the lamb ever torn “by the teeth” of a wolf, or did a shepherd once rescue the lamb “from the teeth” of a wolf?)
    • 1803, Joanne Nep. Alber, Interpretatio Sacrae Scripturae per Omnes Veteris et Novi Testamenti Libros, 30:14, page 172:
      prō dentibus gladiōs habent
      They have swords for teeth.
  2. (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
  3. (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
    1. tooth of a destroying power
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Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dēns dentēs
Genitive dentis dentium
Dative dentī dentibus
Accusative dentem dentēs
dentīs
Ablative dente dentibus
Vocative dēns dentēs

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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, oblique den)

  1. its, possessive form of den

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Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

Pronunciation

Preposition

dens

  1. (Gascony) in, within, inside

References

  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 54.

Old Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈdɛns/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈdɛns/

Adverb

dens

  1. Alternative form of dnes

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)

  1. dense

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