Where does “dentin” come from?
Dentin comes from French dentine, from Proto-Indo-European h₃dónts meaning tooth, ultimately from the root h₁ed- meaning to eat.
dentin (English): The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up...
Definitions
- The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up...
Ancestry of “dentin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | dentine | dentin |
| 2 | French | dent | tooth; cog |
| 3 | Middle French | dent | tooth |
| 4 | Old French | dent | tooth |
| 5 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 6 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 7 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |
Words derived from “dentin”