dens

• IPA^(key): /dɛnz/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnz

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dens

1. plural of den

dens

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of den.

Borrowed from Latin dens (“a tooth”). Doublet of dent and tooth.

dens (plural dentes)

1. (anatomy) A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.

   Synonym: odontoid process

• dens invaginatus

• Ends, NDEs, SEND, ends, neds, send, sned

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdɛns]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈdens]

dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)

1. dense, thick

• densament

• condensar
• densitat

• “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “dens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

dens m pl

1. plural of dans (“tooth”)

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 31

dens (nominative den, objective den)

1. its, possessive form of den

From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), Sanskrit दत् (dát), Lithuanian dantìs, Old English tōþ (English tooth), Armenian ատամ (atam).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d̪ɛns]

dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension

1. (anatomy) a tooth
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.77–78:

     nec procul ā stabulīs audet discēdere, sīquā
     excussa est avidī dentibus agna lupī.

     Nor [does a] lamb dare to withdraw far from the sheep-folds, if it was ever torn from the teeth of a hungry wolf.
     (The flexibility of Latin word order allows Ovid to heighten tension by enjoining the words for lamb and wolf. Translations vary; was the lamb ever torn “by the teeth” of a wolf, or did a shepherd once rescue the lamb “from the teeth” of a wolf?)

   • 1803, Joanne Nep. Alber, Interpretatio Sacrae Scripturae per Omnes Veteris et Novi Testamenti Libros‎, 30:14, page 172:

     prō dentibus gladiōs habent

     They have swords for teeth.

2. (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
3. (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
   1. tooth of a destroying power

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “dens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

dens (nominative den, oblique den)

1. its, possessive form of den

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

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dens

1. (Gascony) in, within, inside

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 54.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈdɛns/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈdɛns/

dens

1. Alternative form of dnes

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “dens”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.

• IPA^(key): /dens/

dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)

1. dense

• condensa
• densitate

• dens in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)