different between dens vs fens

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

dens

1. plural of den

Verb

dens

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of den.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin dens (“a tooth”). Doublet of dent.

Noun

dens (plural dentes)

1. (anatomy) A toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates.

   Synonym: odontoid process

Translations

Anagrams

• Ends, NDEs, SEND, ends, neds, send, sned

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?nsus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?d?ns/

Adjective

dens (feminine densa, masculine plural densos, feminine plural denses)

1. dense, thick

Derived terms

• densament

Related terms

• condensar
• densitat

Further reading

• “dens” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dens” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “dens” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dens” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Noun

dens m pl

1. plural of dans (“tooth”)

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.31)

Danish

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, objective den)

1. its, possessive form of den

See also

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dents, from Proto-Indo-European *h?dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (odoús), Sanskrit ??? (dát), German Zahn, Old English t?þ (English tooth). Compare ed? (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dens/, [d??ns]

Noun

d?ns m (genitive dentis); third declension

1. (anatomy) a tooth
2. (metonymically) a tooth, point, spike, prong, tine, fluke, or any tooth-like projection
3. (figuratively) tooth of envy, envy, ill will
   1. tooth of a destroying power

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• dens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dens in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dens in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

dens (nominative den, oblique den)

1. its, possessive form of den

See also

Occitan

Etymology

Contraction of the Latin de intus.

Preposition

dens

1. (Gascony) in, within, inside

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 54.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dense, Latin densus. Compare the inherited doublet des.

Adjective

dens m or n (feminine singular dens?, masculine plural den?i, feminine and neuter plural dense)

1. dense

Declension

Related terms

• condensa
• densitate

English

Noun

fens

1. plural of fen

Anagrams

• nefs

Catalan

Verb

fens

1. second-person singular present indicative form of fendre

Swedish

Noun

fens

1. definite genitive singular of fe