dentiscalpium

Latin

From dens (“tooth”) +‎ scalpō (“to scratch”) +‎ -ium.

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /den.tisˈkal.pi.um/, [d̪en̪t̪isˈkälpium]

dentiscalpium n (genitive dentiscalpiī or dentiscalpī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

“dentiscalpium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
dentiscalpium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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