dentiscalpium

== Latin == === Etymology === From dens (“tooth”) + scalpō (“to scratch”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɛn.tɪsˈkaɫ.pi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [den.tisˈkal.pi.um] === Noun === dentiscalpium n (genitive dentiscalpiī or dentiscalpī); second declension toothpick ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “dentiscalpium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dentiscalpium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.