dentifrangibulus

== Latin == === Etymology === Coined by Plautus, seemingly from dentifrangibulum by personification and transfer from the neuter gender to the masculine, from dēns (“tooth”) +‎ frangō (“break”) +‎ -bulum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛn.tɪ.fraŋˈɡɪ.bʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [den.ti.fran̠ʲˈd͡ʒiː.bu.lus] === Noun === dentifrangibulus m (genitive dentifrangibulī); second declension (Plautine, hapax legomenon, humorous) someone who breaks other people’s teeth; a tooth-breaker ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== dentifrangibulum === See also === nucifrangibulum === References === “dentĭfrangĭbŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dentĭfrangĭbŭlus”, 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