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Latin
Etymology
From dens (“tooth”) + fricō (“to rub”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
dentifricium n (genitive dentifriciī or dentifricī); second declension
- tooth powder, toothpaste
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History, XXVIII, 28, 11, 49, §182
Efficax habetur et caprino lacte conlui dentes vel felle taurino. Talorum caprae recentium cinis dentifricio placet et omnium fere villaticarum quadrupedum, ne saepius eadem dicantur.- It is also held to be very efficacious to wash the teeth with goat milk or gall from a bull. The anklebones of a nanny goat recently killed, ashes is good as a toothpaste, as are the bones of all quadrupedal farm animals in most cases, to avoid repeating this too much.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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