predental

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Letters: 9

Definition of predental

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

“Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.”

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adj

(not-comparable)Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

“Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.”
(not-comparable)In front of the teeth.
(not-comparable)an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

noun

A person studying predentistry.

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Middle French dentalbor. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts Proto-Italic *dents Latin dēns Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin dentālisbor. English dental English predental From pre- + dental.

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