dentale

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃.tal/

Adjective

dentale

  1. feminine singular of dental

Noun

dentale f (plural dentales)

  1. (linguistics) dental consonant

Noun

dentale m (plural dentales)

  1. any of the tusk shells in the family Dentaliidae

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German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːlə

Adjective

dentale

  1. inflection of dental:
    1. strong and mixed nominative and accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative and accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine and neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin dentālem, accusative of dentālis, derived from Latin dēns (tooth), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Surface analysis: dent(e) (tooth) + -ale (-al, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /denˈtale/, [d̪en̪ˈt̪äː.l̺e̞]
  • Hyphenation: den‧tà‧le

Adjective

dentale (masculine and feminine plural dentali)

  1. (anatomy) of or pertaining to the teeth, dental
  2. (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)
    La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.
    The letter T represents a dental consonant.

Synonyms

Noun

dentale f (plural dentali)

  1. (phonetics) A dental speech sound.

Latin

Adjective

dentāle

  1. nominative neuter singular of dentālis
  2. accusative neuter singular of dentālis
  3. vocative neuter singular of dentālis

References

  • dentale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dentale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • dentale in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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