French

Adjective

dentale

1. feminine singular of dental

Noun

dentale f ‎(plural dentales)

1. (linguistics) dental consonant

Noun

dentale m ‎(plural dentales)

1. any of the tusk shells in the Dentaliidae family

Anagrams

• dealent

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːlə

Adjective

dentale

1. inflected form of dental

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dentālem, accusative of dentālis, derived from dēns ‎(“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.
Surface analysis: dent(e) ‎(“tooth”) +‎ -ale ‎(“-al”, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /denˈtale/, [d̪en̪ˈt̪äː.l̺e̞]
• Hyphenation: den‧tà‧le

Adjective

dentale m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural dentali)

1. (anatomy) of or pertaining to the teeth, dental
2. (phonetics) dental (articulated with the tongue on the upper teeth)

   La lettera T rappresenta una consonante dentale.‎

   The letter T represents a dental consonant.

Synonyms

• (1): dentario

Noun

dentale f ‎(plural dentali)

1. (phonetics) A dental speech sound.

Related terms

• dentario
• dente
• labiodentale

Latin

Adjective

dentāle

1. nominative neuter singular of dentālis
2. accusative neuter singular of dentālis
3. vocative neuter singular of dentālis

References

• dentale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dentale”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• dentale in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers