denticulus

== Latin == === Etymology === From dēns (“tooth”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛnˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [denˈtiː.ku.lus] === Noun === denticulus m (genitive denticulī); second declension diminutive of dēns: a little tooth, a toothlet. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: denticule Portuguese: dentículo Spanish: dentículo === References === “denticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "denticulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “denticulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “denticulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers