dente
Meaning
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- (masculine) tooth (hard structure found in the jaws of most vertebrates)
- (masculine) tooth; prong; tine (sharp projection in a tool)
- (masculine) clove (any of the pieces that make up a bulb of garlic)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
den‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdẽ.t͡ʃi/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dente, from Latin dentem (“tooth”). Compare Galician dente and Spanish diente.
New
dentar
- (transitive) to bite (to cut into by clamping the teeth)
- (transitive) to indent (to cut into points like a row of teeth)
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