# dent
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: dĕnt, IPA: /dɛnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.

#### Noun

dent (plural dents)
* A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
    The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
* (figurative) A minor effect made upon something.
    to make a dent
** 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 392:"Case Of You" (#67, 1980), a single on the Scotti Brothers label, was Frank's first chart dent.
** 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: an era of vast quantities, deep specificity, and breakneck speed, where few individual artifacts, artworks, or conventions leave a dent in society or bend the curve of history.
* A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
* (by extension, informal) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
    That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
** 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport‎:Andy Carroll's first goals since his £35m move to Liverpool put a dent in Manchester City's Champions League hopes as they were emphatically swept aside at Anfield.

##### Derived terms

* dent corn
* indent
* put a dent in the universe
* scratch-and-dent

##### Translations
#### Verb

dent (third-person singular simple present dents, present participle denting, simple past and past participle dented)
* (transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
* (intransitive) To develop a dent or dents.
    Copper is soft and dents easily.

##### Derived terms

* dedent
* dentable
* dentproof

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.

#### Noun

dent (plural dents)
* (engineering) A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
* (weaving) A slot or a wire in a reed

### Anagrams

* 'tend, tend

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dentem m.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈden]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdent]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dent f (plural dents)
* (anatomy) tooth
* tooth (saw tooth)
* tooth (gear tooth)

#### Derived terms

* a cavall regalat, no li miris el dentat
* dent canina
* dent de lleó
* dent incisiva
* dentar
* dentut

#### Related terms

* dentadura
* dental
* dentat
* dentista

### Further reading

* “dent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “dent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “dent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “dent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* dè, din

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dentem.

### Noun

dent f (plural dents) (ORB, broad)
* tooth

### References

* dent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* dent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dent f, with change of gender from Old French dent m, from Latin dentem m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: dam, dams, dans, dents

### Noun

dent f (plural dents)
* tooth
* cog (tooth on a gear)

#### Derived terms

* à belles dents
* à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents
* à pleines dents
* armé jusqu’aux dents
* avoir la dent
* avoir la dent creuse
* avoir les dents du fond qui baignent
* avoir les dents longues
* avoir les dents qui rayent le parquet
* avoir une dent contre
* brosse à dents
* coup de dent
* cure-dent
* dent de lait
* dent de sagesse
* dent-de-lion
* dentaire
* dental
* denté
* dentelé
* dentelle
* dentelure
* dentifrice
* dentiste
* dentition
* dents du bonheur
* denture
* denturologie
* denturologue, denturologiste
* en dents de scie
* faire ses dents
* fée des dents
* mentir comme un arracheur de dents
* montrer les dents
* ne pas desserrer les dents
* œil pour œil, dent pour dent
* parler entre ses dents
* pâte à dents
* poil aux dents
* quand les poules auront des dents
* rage de dent
* rage de dents
* se mettre sous la dent
* serrer les dents
* sourire de toutes ses dents
* s’y casser les dents
* tigre à dents de sabre

### Further reading

* “dent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* tend

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /dent/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪]

### Verb

dent
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of dō, "they may give"

## Lombard
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin dentem.

#### Pronunciation

* (Milanese) IPA: /ˈdɛn/

#### Noun

dent m
* tooth

### Etymology 2

From Late Latin dē intrō.

#### Adverb

dent
* inside; indoors

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 108: “un dente marcio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Arrighi, Cletto (1896) Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] ‎ (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 184
* Angiolini, Francesco (1897) Vocabolario milanese-italiano coi segni per la pronuncia‎ (in Italian), pages 262-263

## Middle English
### Noun

dent
* Alternative form of dint

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French dent m.

### Noun

dent f (plural dens)
* tooth

#### Descendants

* French: dent f

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French dent, from Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

dent m (plural dents)
* (anatomy) tooth

#### Derived terms

* brînge à dents (“toothbrush”)

#### Related terms

* denchive (“gum”)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin dentem m. Attested from the 12th century. Compare Catalan dent f.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

dent f (plural dents)
* tooth

#### Related terms

* dentada
* dentadura
* dental
* dentar
* dentari
* dentat
* dentejar
* dentista

### References

* ↑ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 185.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin dēns, dente m.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdent/, /ˈdant/
* Rhymes: -ent

### Noun

dent oblique singular, m (oblique plural denz or dentz, nominative singular denz or dentz, nominative plural dent)
* (anatomy, of a comb) tooth

#### Descendants

* Middle French: dent f
** French: dent f
* Walloon: dint f

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛŋt/

### Noun

dent m (plural dent)
* tooth

#### Derived terms

* dentin
* denton
* dentera
* dentista

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* daint (Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

### Noun

dent m (plural dents)
* (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) tooth

#### Derived terms

* pasta da dents (“toothpaste”)