Noun: wisdom tooth
| Singular | wisdom tooth |
| Plural | wisdom teeth |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like wisdom tooth
primary tooth,
scissor tooth,
jawtooth,
milk tooth,
milk-tooth,
egg tooth,
bucktooth,
mill tooth,
deciduous tooth,
rabbit tooth,
cheek tooth,
axle tooth,
colt's tooth,
purple tooth,
canine tooth,
eye tooth,
pseudotooth,
back tooth,
temporary tooth,
gobber tooth, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-controlled ones (i.e. teeth)”), because they arrive approximately when one has reached the age of prudence or wisdom. Compare also German Weisheitszahn (“wisdom tooth”), Danish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Swedish visdomstand (“wisdom tooth”), Icelandic vísdómstönn (“wisdom tooth”), Dutch verstandskies (“wisdom tooth”, literally “intellect molar”), German Low German Verstandskuus (“wisdom tooth”, literally “wisdom molar”). Chinese 智齒 /智齿 (zhìchǐ), Russian зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti), Hebrew שן בינה (shen biná) and Finnish viisaudenhammas also mean “tooth of wisdom”. See: Latin Nouns '
dēns sapientiae', German Nouns '
Weisheitszahn', Danish Nouns '
visdomstand', Swedish Nouns '
visdomstand', Icelandic Nouns '
vísdómstönn', Dutch Nouns '
verstandskies'.
Verbs referencing "wisdom tooth"
German Nouns
Weisheitszahn.