dentio

1.

dentĭo, īre, v. n. [dens], to get or cut teeth, to teeth.

I.

Prop.:

propria dentientium,

Cels. 2, 1 med.:

pueros tarde dentientis,

Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 22; cf. id. 21, 20, 83, § 140 al.:

auribus perhauriunda haec sunt, ne dentes dentiant (the words of a parasite who fears to have nothing for his teeth to chew upon),

lest the teeth grow, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 34 Lorenz ad loc.

2.

dentĭo, ōnis, f. [1. dentio], a teething, dentition, Plin. Val. 1, 4, 2.