dentifrangibulum

== Latin == === Etymology === Coined by Plautus, from dēns (“tooth”) +‎ frangō (“break”) +‎ -bulum (suffix forming instrument nouns). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛn.tɪ.fraŋˈɡɪ.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [den.ti.fran̠ʲˈd͡ʒiː.bu.lum] === Noun === dentifrangibulum n (genitive dentifrangibulī); second declension (Plautine, hapax legomenon, humorous) fist Synonym: pugnus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === Noun === dentifrangibulum accusative singular of dentifrangibulus ==== Related terms ==== dentifrangibulus === See also === nucifrangibulum === References === “dentĭfrangĭbŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dentĭfrangĭbŭlum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “dentifrangibulus” in volume 5,1, column 549, line 17 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present