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dentes

dentes is a Latin form of dens, meaning “tooth”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 136 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.46: … tultorum inproborumque consensu excitatam: haec, quae sunt minima, tamen bona dicantur necesse est, candiduli dentes, venusti oculi, color suavis et ea quae Anticlea laudat Ulixi pedes abluens: Lénitudo orátionis, móllitudo có …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.10.12: Dentes quoque et in septem mensibus primis et septenos ex utraque parte gigni ait et cadere annis septimis et genuinos adnasci annis fere bis septenis.

All forms of dens (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.