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dentibus

dentibus is a Latin form of dens, meaning “tooth”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 110 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.122: … a animalia gradiendo alia serpendo ad pastum accedunt, alia volando alia nando, cibumque partim oris hiatu et dentibus ipsis capessunt, partim unguium tenacitate arripiunt partim aduncitate rostrorum, alia sugunt alia carpunt al …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.369: Dentibus ille ferox in querno stipite tritis

Plautus, Truculentus 2.1.224: bonis ésse oportet déntibus lenám probam,

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.