dentist

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
    — It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
  2. Deliberate misspelling of Dengist. Internet,alt-of,deliberate,misspelling

词形变化

dentists plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dentistess dentistic dentistical dentistlike dentistress dentistry nondentist surgeon-dentist
相关词
antidentite dental denture orthodontics toothpuller

词源

Etymology tree
French dent
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French dentistebor.
English dentist
Borrowed from French dentiste.
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