dentifricium

== Latin == === Etymology === From dens (“tooth”) + fricō (“to rub”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛn.tɪˈfrɪ.ki.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [den.tiˈfriː.t͡ʃi.um] === Noun === dentifricium n (genitive dentifriciī or dentifricī); second declension tooth powder, toothpaste Pliny the Elder, Natural History, XXVIII, 28, 11, 49, §182 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: dentifrici → English: dentifrice → French: dentifrice → Portuguese: dentífrico → Italian: dentifricio → Spanish: dentífrico === References === “dentifricium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dentifricium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.