dentistry

C2+ Topic:Health & Medicine

US /ˈdɛntɪstri/ UK /ˈdɛntɪstri/ See IPA manual

noun

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1

noun
the branch of medicine concerned with the teeth and gums

Advances in dentistry have made painless fillings routine.

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1 noun · the branch of medicine... odontology

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Related forms dentist dental dentitiondentine

Etymology

Formed from dentist plus the suffix -ry; dentist is from French dentiste, from dent ('tooth'), from Latin dens, dentem ('tooth'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dont- ('tooth').

dens Latin *h₃dónts Proto-Indo-European

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Health & Medicine Word Formation & Derivatives

# dentistry

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈdɛntɪstri
**IPA (UK):** ˈdɛntɪstri

## Meanings
1. the branch of medicine concerned with the teeth and gums

## Examples
- Advances in dentistry have made painless fillings routine.

## Synonyms
- odontology

## Related Forms
- dentist
- dental
- dentition
- dentine

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: dens
- Root: *h₃dónts

## Etymology
Formed from dentist plus the suffix -ry; dentist is from French dentiste, from dent ('tooth'), from Latin dens, dentem ('tooth'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dont- ('tooth').

## AI Etymology
Dentistry has the etymological history Formed from dentist plus the suffix -ry; dentist is from French dentiste, from dent ('tooth'), from Latin dens, dentem ('tooth'), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dont- ('tooth'). The ancestry passes through Latin dens and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts. In present use as a noun, it means "the branch of medicine concerned with the teeth and gums", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include dentist, dental, dentition, and dentine.

## Topics
- Health & Medicine
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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