dens
See also: dens.
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛnz/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnz
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
dens
- plural of den
Verb
dens
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of den.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin dens (“a tooth”). Doublet of dent and tooth.
Noun
dens (plural dentes)
- (anatomy) A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.
- Synonym: odontoid process
Related terms
- dens invaginatus
Translations
toothlike process
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Anagrams
- Ends, NDEs, SEND, ends, neds, send, sned
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈdɛns/
Adjective
dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)
- dense, thick
Derived terms
- densament
Related terms
- condensar
- densitat
Further reading
- “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “dens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cornish
Noun
dens m pl
- plural of dans (“tooth”)
References
- Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
- 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.31)
Danish
Pronoun
dens (nominative den, objective den)
- its, possessive form of den
See also
Danish personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
Latin
Dēns (a tooth)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), Sanskrit दत् (dát), Lithuanian dantìs, Old English tōþ (English tooth), Armenian ատամ (atam).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ɛns]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension
- (anatomy) a tooth
- 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Tristia 1.77-78:
- nec procul ā stabulīs audet discēdere, sīquā
excussa est avidī dentibus agna lupī.- Nor [does a] lamb dare to withdraw far from the sheep-folds, if it was ever torn from the teeth of a hungry wolf.
(The flexibility of Latin word order allows Ovid to heighten tension by enjoining the words for lamb and wolf. Translations vary; was the lamb ever torn “by the teeth” of a wolf, or did a shepherd once rescue the lamb “from the teeth” of a wolf?)
- Nor [does a] lamb dare to withdraw far from the sheep-folds, if it was ever torn from the teeth of a hungry wolf.
- nec procul ā stabulīs audet discēdere, sīquā
- 1803, Joanne Nep. Alber, Interpretatio Sacrae Scripturae per Omnes Veteris et Novi Testamenti Libros, 30:14, page 172:
- prō dentibus gladiōs habent
- They have swords for teeth.
- (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
- (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
- tooth of a destroying power
Inflection
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dēns | dentēs |
| Genitive | dentis | dentium |
| Dative | dentī | dentibus |
| Accusative | dentem | dentēs dentīs |
| Ablative | dente | dentibus |
| Vocative | dēns | dentēs |
Derived terms
- dentāle, dentālia
- dentālis
- dentāneus
- dentārius
- dentarpaga
- dentātus
- dentefabris
- denticulus
- dentidūcum
- dentifrangibulus
- dentifricium
- dentilegus
- dentiō
- dentiscalpium
- dentix
Descendants
Descendants of dens in other languages
- Aromanian: dinti, dinte
- Asturian: diente
- Catalan: dent
- Dalmatian: diant
- → English: dens
- → Esperanto: dento
- Franco-Provençal: dent
- French: dent
- Friulian: dint
- Padanian:
- Romagnol: dént (Ville Unite)
- Galician: dente
- → Interlingua: dente
- Italian: dente
- Megleno-Romanian: dinti
- Neapolitan: dente
- Occitan: dent
- Picard: dint
- Piedmontese: dent
- Portuguese: dente
- Romanian: dinte
- Romansch: dent
- Sardinian: dènte
- Sicilian: denti
- Spanish: diente
- Venetian: dénte
- Walloon: dint
References
- “dens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “dens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronoun
dens (nominative den, oblique den)
- its, possessive form of den
See also
Personal pronouns in Bokmål
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
| Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
| masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | |||||
| feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
| masculine (noun) | ||||||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
| Second | – | dere | deres | |||||
| Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
Occitan
Etymology
From Late Latin dē intus.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Preposition
dens
- (Gascony) in, within, inside
References
- Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 54.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.
Adjective
dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)
- dense
Declension
Declension of dens
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | dens | densă | denși | dense | ||
| definite | densul | densa | denșii | densele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | dens | dense | denși | dense | ||
| definite | densului | densei | denșilor | denselor | |||
Related terms
- condensa
- densitate