Etymology

denture

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Today it means: A set of teeth, the teeth viewed as a unit. Full definition →

French denture ← Latin dens, dentis
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  1. Latin · derived fromdens, dentis“tooth”
  2. French · derived fromdenture“set of teeth”
  3. English todaydenture

From French denture (“set of teeth”), from Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -urus, -ura, -urum, a suffix implying a set.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.