dentin

English

Alternative forms

• dentine

Etymology

From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine.

Noun

dentin (usually uncountable, plural dentins) (American spelling)

2. The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.

Derived terms

• dentinal
• dentinitis
• dentinoid
• dentinoma
• orthodentin
• predentin
• vasodentin

Translations

material of a tooth

• Catalan: dentina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牙本質 / 牙本质 (zh) (yáběnzhì)

• Czech: zubovina f
• Finnish: hammasluu (fi)
• French: dentine (fr) f
• German: Dentin (de) n
• Greek: οδοντίνη (el) f (odontíni)
• Hungarian: dentin (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᑭᒍᑎᐅᑉ ᓴᐅᓂᐅᔭᖓ (kicotiop saonioyanga)
• Irish: déidín m
• Italian: dentina (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ac (ku) f

• Māori: matūniho
• Polish: zębina (pl) f
• Portuguese: dentina (pt) f
• Russian: дентин (ru) m (dentin)
• Slovak: zubovina
• Spanish: dentina (es) f
• Welsh: dentin m

Anagrams

• Dinnet, dinnet, indent, intend, tinned

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈde̞n.tin]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈden.tin]

Verb

dentin

1. inflection of dentar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative