# dens
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛnz/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnz

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

dens
* plural of den

#### Verb

dens
* third-person singular simple present indicative of den.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

dens (plural dentes)
* (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

##### Related terms

* crowned dens syndrome
* dens invaginatus

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* send, Send, ends, ENDS, Neds, neds, Ends, sned, NDEs, SEND

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈdɛns]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈdens]

### Adjective

dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)
* dense, thick

#### Derived terms

* densament

#### Related terms

* condensar
* densitat

### Further reading

* “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “dens”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Cornish
### Noun

dens m pl
* plural of dans (“tooth”)

### References

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

## Danish
### Pronoun

dens (nominative den, objective den)
* its, possessive form of den

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | common | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Singular | Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | hendes | hendes |
| Singular | Third | common (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | indefinite | man | en | ens | ens | ens |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine |
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | vores | vores |
| Plural | First | archaic / formal | vi | os | vor | vort | vore |
| Plural | Second | – | I | jer | jeres | jeres | jeres |
| Plural | Third | – | de | dem | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | sig | deres | deres | deres |

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin dē intus.

### Pronoun

dens (ORB, broad)
* in

### References

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

## Latin
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /dens/, [d̪ẽːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /dens/, [d̪ɛns]

### Noun

dēns m (genitive dentis); third declension
* (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 habentThey have swords for teeth.
* (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
* (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
** tooth of a destroying power
*** c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.851–853:nam quid in oppressū validō dūrābit eōrum, ut mortem effugiat, lēti sub dentibus ipsīs? ignis an ūmor an aura? quid hōrum? sanguen an ossa?For which of them will last—and escape death—under the strong pressure, under the very teeth of annihilation? The fire, or the moisture, or the air? Which of these? The blood, or the bones?
*** 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.233–235:Tempus edāx rērum, tūque, invidiōsa vetustās, omnia dēstruitis, vitiātaque dentibus aevī paulātim lentā cōnsūmitis omnia morte.O Time, devourer of all things, and you, jealous Old Age, you destroy everything; and, through the teeth of time, and a slow, tainted death, little by little, you consume everything.
*** c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 42:Excēpit Seleucus fābulae partem et “Egō̆” inquit “nōn cō̆tīdiē lavor; baliscus enim fullō est, aqua dentēs habet, et cor nostrum cō̆tīdiē liquēscit.[”]Seleucus took up part of the tale and "I", he said, "do not wash every day; for the bath is a fuller, the water has teeth, and our heart melts away daily."
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#### Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* dentāle, dentālia
* dentālis
* dentāneus
* dentārius
* dentarpaga
* dentātus
* dentefabris
* denticulus
* dentidūcum
* dentifrangibulus
* dentifricium
* dentilegus
* dentiō
* dentiscalpium
* dentix

#### Related terms

* Denter

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: dinti f, dinte f
** Istro-Romanian: dinte
** Megleno-Romanian: dinti m
** Romanian: dinte m
* Dalmatian:
** diant m
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: dente, denti
** Italian: dente m
** Neapolitan: dente m
** Sicilian: denti m
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: dènte
* Padanian:
** Piedmontese: dent m
** Romagnol: dént m (Ville Unite)
** Venetan: dénte m
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: dint m
** Ladin: dent m
** Lombard: dent m
** Romansch: dent m
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: dent f
** Oïl:
*** Picard: dint
*** Old French: dent m
**** Middle French: dent f
***** French: dent f
**** Walloon: dint f
** Oc:
*** Catalan: dent f
*** Occitan: dent f
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: dient m
** Asturian: diente m
** Mirandese: diente m
** Old Galician-Portuguese: dente m
*** Fala: denti m
*** Galician: dente m
*** Portuguese: dente m
** Old Spanish: dente m, diente, dient
*** Ladino: diente, דיינטי
*** Spanish: diente
Borrowings:
* → English: dens
* → Esperanto: dento
* → Interlingua: dente

### References

* “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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronoun

dens (nominative den, oblique den)
* its, possessive form of den

#### See also

| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive | Possessive |
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | feminine | masculine | neuter | plural |
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Singular | Second | general | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine |
| Singular | Second | formal (rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Singular | Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | hennes | hennes | hennes |
| Singular | Third | masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | hans | hans | hans |
| Singular | Third | feminine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | masculine (noun) | den | den | dens | dens | dens | dens |
| Singular | Third | neuter (noun) | det | det | dets | dets | dets | dets |
| Singular | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vår | vårt | våre |
| Plural | Second | general | dere | dere | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Second | formal (very rare) | De | Dem | Deres | Deres | Deres | Deres |
| Plural | Third | general | de | dem | deres | deres | deres | deres |
| Plural | Third | reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

dens
* (Gascony) in, within, inside

### References

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

## Old Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈdɛns/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈdɛns/

### Adverb

dens
* Alternative form of dnes

### Further reading

* 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

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dens/

### Adjective

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

#### Related terms

* condensa
* densitate

### Further reading

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