For it is unpleasant, when passers-by remark: "O good old house, alas!
Some limit should surely be set to this tendency and it should be reduced at least to a standard of moderation; and by that same standard of moderation the comforts and wants of life generally should be regulated.
Itaque in conviviis pars dapum prima oleum, aut adeps, in quem concretum & spissum ita dentes infigunt, ut nos in panem aut pomum.
So, instead of the Latin dentes elephantis, we find in English and in other languages the word ivory.
But some authors give this last name only to the last molars, or wisdom teeth, dentes sensus et sapientiæ et intellectus.
The filling with these last two substances are especially suitable, according to the author, to preserve the teeth from further spreading of the caries: “Si gallia et cyperus cavis dentibus applicentur, dentes ulterius non corrodentur.
In utero duodecim dentes formantur in malis, et totidem in maxilla (in the uterus are formed twelve teeth in the upper jaw and as many in the lower).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dentes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
