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4-letter words (5 found)

DENS,ENDS,NEDS,SEND,SNED,

3-letter words (7 found)

DEN,EDS,END,ENS,NED,SED,SEN,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EN,ES,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 18 words from dens according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dens

dens edns dnes ndes ends neds desn edsn dsen sden esdn sedn dnse ndse dsne sdne nsde snde ensd nesd esnd send nsed sned

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Definitions and meaning of dens

dens

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnz/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnz

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dens

  1. plural of den

Verb

dens

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of den.

Etymology 2

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

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
Related terms
  • dens invaginatus
Translations

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdɛns]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈdens]

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, 2024
  • “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
  • Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 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 *h₃dónts. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), Sanskrit दत् (dát), Lithuanian dantìs, Old English tōþ (English tooth), Armenian ատամ (atam).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ẽːs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dens/, [d̪ɛns]

Noun

dēns 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

Related 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Pronoun

dens (nominative den, oblique den)

  1. its, possessive form of den

See also

Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

Pronunciation

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.

Old Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈdɛns/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈdɛns/

Adverb

dens

  1. Alternative form of dnes

Further reading

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “dens”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dens/

Adjective

dens m or n (feminine singular densă, masculine plural denși, feminine and neuter plural dense)

  1. dense

Declension

Related terms

  • condensa
  • densitate

Further reading

  • dens in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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