Etymology

dentex

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Today it means: Any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish. Full definition →

translingual Dentex ← Latin dentex ← Proto-Italic *dents
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₃dónts
  2. Proto-Italic · derived from*dents
  3. Latin · derived fromdēns“tooth”
  4. Latin · derived fromdentex
  5. translingual · borrowed fromDentex
  6. English todaydentex

Borrowed from translingual Dentex, from Latin dentex, from Latin dēns (“tooth”). Further from Proto-Italic *dents and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

Words from the same roots

Latindēns all →

dentindentdensdentinpremolardogtoothcanine toothdancettedenti-dentiferousdentiformdentilavedentiphonedentizedento-dentoidmesiodens

Proto-Italic*dents all →

dentalium

Proto-Indo-European*h₃dónts all →

zinctoothtuskdentalium

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