Where does “multidenticulate” come from?
multidenticulate (English) comes from English denticulate, from Latin denticulatus, from Latin denticulus, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens, from Proto-Italic dents, from Proto-Indo-European h₃dónts — to eat.
multidenticulate (English): Having many fine teeth or tooth-like projections
Definitions
- Having many fine teeth or tooth-like projections
Ancestry of “multidenticulate”, step by step
multidenticulate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English denticulate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | denticulate | Finely dentate, as a leaf edge; bearing many... |
| 2 | Latin | denticulatus | denticulate; furnished with small teeth |
| 3 | Latin | denticulus | a little tooth |
| 4 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 5 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 6 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |