English
Etymology
From Latin cuspid-, stem of cuspis (“point, apex”).[1] Doublet of cusp and cuspis.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuspid (plural cuspids)
- A pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals.
- Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, unicuspid
- Hypernyms: tooth < structure, part
- Coordinate terms: incisor, premolar, molar
- Near-synonyms: eyetooth (only in humans); fang, fangtooth (particularly elongated cuspids in certain animals)
Derived terms
Translations
tooth with a single point
- Arabic: نَاب (ar) m (nāb)
- Egyptian Arabic: ناب m (nab)
- Armenian: ժանիք (hy) (žanikʻ)
- Bulgarian: кучешки зъб m (kučeški zǎb)
- Burmese: စွယ် (my) (cwai)
- Catalan: dent canina (ca) f, ullal (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: kak-khí
- Mandarin: 犬齒 / 犬齿 (zh) (quǎnchǐ)
- Corsican: dente di l'ochju m
- Czech: špičák (cs) m
- Dhivehi: އަރިމަތީ ދަތް (arimatī dat̊)
- Dutch: hoektand (nl) m
- Esperanto: kanino
- Finnish: kulmahammas (fi) (humans); raateluhammas (carnivors)
- French: dent œillère (fr) f, dent de l'œil (fr) f
- Galician: cairo (gl) m, canteiro (gl) m
- Georgian: ეშვი (ešvi)
- German: Augenzahn (de) m, Eckzahn (de) m
- Greek: κυνόδοντας (el) m (kynódontas)
- Ancient Greek: κῠνόδους m (kŭnódous)
- Hebrew: נִיב (he) m (niv)
- Hungarian: szemfog (hu)
- Icelandic: augntönn (is) f, vígtönn (is) f
- Indonesian: taring (id)
- Ingrian: silmähammas
- Irish: cíocrán m, gonán m, géarán m, starrfhiacail f
- Italian: canino (it) m
- Japanese: 犬歯 (ja) (kenshi), 糸切り歯 (いときりば, ito-kiri-ba)
- Kabyle: ugel m
- Kapampangan: patsit
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: diranê qîl (ku) m
- Latvian: acu zobs m
- Macedonian: песјак m (pesjak), очник m (očnik), кучешки заб m (kučeški zab)
- Malay: siung (ms), taring (ms), gigi kanin
- Māori: niho kata, niho rei
- Norwegian: hoggtann m
- Bokmål: hjørnetann m or f
- Nynorsk: hjørnetann f, hyrnetann f
- Polish: kieł (pl) m
- Portuguese: dente canino m, canino (pt) m
- Romanian: canin (ro) m
- Russian: клык (ru) m (klyk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏чња̄к m, па̏сја̄к m
- Latin: ȍčnjāk (sh) m, pȁsjāk (sh) m
- Slovak: očný zub m, tesák m, špiciak m
- Spanish: canino (es) m, colmillo (es) m, columelar m, canero m, canil (es) m (colloquial)
- Sundanese: sihung (su)
- Swedish: huggtand (sv) c
- Tagalog: panigbi, pamangal, pangalis
- Telugu: రదనికలు (radanikalu)
- Thai: ฟันเขี้ยว (fan-kîao)
- Turkish: köpek dişi (tr)
- Vietnamese: răng nanh (vi)
- Volapük: jokatut
- Welsh: dant llygad m
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