cuspid

English

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Etymology

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Latin cuspis

Latin cuspid-der.

English cuspid

From Latin cuspid-, stem of cuspis (“point, apex”). Doublet of cusp and cuspis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌspɪd/

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Noun

cuspid (plural cuspids)

2. A pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals.

   Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, unicuspid

   Hypernyms: tooth < structure, part

   Coordinate terms: incisor, premolar, molar

   Near-synonyms: eyetooth (only in humans); fang, fangtooth (particularly elongated cuspids in certain animals)

Derived terms

• bicuspid
• cuspidate
• monocuspid
• multicuspid
• pentacuspid
• quadricuspid
• tetracuspid
• tricuspid
• unicuspid

Related terms

• cusp

Translations

tooth with a single point

• Arabic: نَاب (ar) m (nāb)

  Egyptian Arabic: ناب m (nab)

• Armenian: ժանիք (hy) (žanikʻ)
• Bulgarian: кучешки зъб m (kučeški zăb)
• Burmese: စွယ် (my) (cwai)
• Catalan: dent canina (ca) f, ullal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 犬齒 / 犬齿 (hyun² ci²)

  Hokkien: kak-khí

  Mandarin: 犬齒 / 犬齿 (zh) (quǎnchǐ)

• Corsican: dente di l'ochju m
• Czech: špičák (cs) m
• Dhivehi: އަރިމަތީ ދަތް (arimatī dat̊)
• Dutch: hoektand (nl) m
• Esperanto: kanino
• Finnish: kulmahammas (fi) (humans); raateluhammas (carnivors)
• French: dent œillère (fr) f, dent de l'œil (fr) f
• Galician: cairo (gl) m, canteiro (gl) m
• Georgian: ეშვი (ešvi)
• German: Augenzahn (de) m, Eckzahn (de) m
• Greek: κυνόδοντας (el) m (kynódontas)

  Ancient Greek: κῠνόδους m (kŭnódous)

• Hebrew: נִיב (he) m (niv)
• Hindi: भेदक (hi) m (bhedak), रदनक m (radnak)
• Hungarian: szemfog (hu)
• Icelandic: augntönn (is) f, vígtönn (is) f
• Indonesian: taring (id)
• Ingrian: silmähammas
• Irish: cíocrán m, gonán m, géarán m, starrfhiacail f
• Italian: canino (it) m
• Japanese: 犬歯 (ja) (kenshi), 糸切り歯 (いときりば, ito-kiri-ba)
• Kabyle: ugel m
• Kapampangan: patsit
• Korean: 송곳니 (ko) (songgonni), 견치(犬齒) (ko) (gyeonchi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: diranê qîl (ku) m

• Latvian: acu zobs m
• Macedonian: песјак m (pesjak), очник m (očnik), кучешки заб m (kučeški zab)
• Malay: siung (ms), taring (ms), gigi kanin
• Māori: niho kata, niho rei
• Mizo: ha uingho
• Norwegian: hoggtann m

  Bokmål: hjørnetann m or f

  Nynorsk: hjørnetann f, hyrnetann f

• Polish: kieł (pl) m
• Portuguese: dente canino m, canino (pt) m
• Romanian: canin (ro) m
• Russian: клык (ru) m (klyk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏чња̄к m, па̏сја̄к m

  Latin: ȍčnjāk (sh) m, pȁsjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: očný zub m, tesák m, špiciak m
• Spanish: canino (es) m, colmillo (es) m, columelar m, canero m, canil (es) m (colloquial)
• Sundanese: sihung (su)
• Swedish: huggtand (sv) c
• Tagalog: panigbi, pamangal, pangalis
• Telugu: రదనికలు (radanikalu)
• Thai: ฟันเขี้ยว (fan-kîao)
• Turkish: köpek dişi (tr), azı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آزی

• Vietnamese: răng nanh (vi)
• Volapük: jokatut
• Welsh: dant llygad m

Anagrams

• Cupids, Sidcup, cupids