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Latin
Etymology
From dēns (“tooth”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
denticulus m (genitive denticulī); second declension
- Diminutive of dēns: a little tooth
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “denticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- denticulus 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)
- denticulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “denticulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers