English
dental
Dental comes from Late Latin dentālis.
- Late Latinmoderndentālis
- Englishearliest quotation 1958dental
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Late Latinmoderndentālis
- Englishearliest quotation 1958dental
Earliest quotation: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy): “'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- ‘to smell’
odor, annoy, ozone, egregious, toothless, odious, osmium, odium, redolent, 66 more
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts ‘tooth’
through Latin dēns ‘a tooth’
Today it means
adj Of or concerning the teeth.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin dentālis / dental