Where does “dental” come from?
dental (Serbo-Croatian) comes from English dental, from Middle French dental, from Latin dentālis, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens, from Proto-Italic dents, from Proto-Indo-European h₃dónts — to eat.
dental (Serbo-Croatian): a dental
Definitions
- a dental
Ancestry of “dental”, step by step
dental traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English dental
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | dental | Of or concerning the teeth, as in "dental care";... |
| 2 | Middle French | dental | — |
| 3 | Latin | dentālis | bearing or furnished with small toothlike projections |
| 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 |