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Latin
Etymology
From dēns (“tooth”) + -ātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dentātus (feminine dentāta, neuter dentātum); first/second-declension adjective
- toothed, having teeth
- Antonym: ēdentulus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “dentatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dentatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dentatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “dentatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers