The corpus record — Latin

dentatus

dentatus · adj

Toothed, having teeth

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 14s 1 · 84.03/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 11s 1 · 50.51/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dentātus — Lewis & Short

dentātus, a, um, adj.dens.

I Toothed, having teeth.

A Lit.: quosdam et cum dentibus nasci, sicut M. Curium, qui ob id Dentatus cognominatus est, Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 68: male dentata (puella), Ov. R. Am. 339; Mart. 1, 73.—

2 Pregn.: bestiae, the wild beasts used in the public combats, Amm. 31, 10, 19; 19, 6, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2533; and: facete, vir (i. e. mordax), Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 3.—

B Meton. (acc. to dens, no. I. B.), toothed, dentated, spiked, pointed: rastri, Varr. L. L. 5, § 136 Müll.; cf. crates, Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 173: serra, id. 36, 22, 48, § 167; Lucr. 2, 432.—*

II Charta, polished with a tooth, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 15, 6; cf. Plin. 13, 12, 25, § 81.

Where it came from

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