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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
dentale
- feminine singular of dental
Noun
dentale f (plural dentales)
- (linguistics) dental consonant
Noun
dentale m (plural dentales)
- any of the tusk shells in the family Dentaliidae
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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
dentale
- inflection of dental:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /denˈta.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: den‧tà‧le
Adjective
dentale (plural dentali)
- (anatomy, relational) tooth; dental
- Synonym: dentario
- (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)
La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.- The letter T represents a dental consonant.
Noun
dentale f (plural dentali)
- (phonetics) a dental speech sound
- ploughshare
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Latin
Adjective
dentāle
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of dentālis
References
- “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
Spanish
Verb
dentale
- second-person singular voseo imperative of dentar combined with le