- dentilegus
- dentĭlĕgus, i. m. [dens-lego], one who picks up his teeth, sc. after they have been knocked out; a tooth-gatherer, a comic word:
dentilegos omnis mortalis faciam,
Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 18.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.