"牙醫,其職業是清潔和拔牙,治療有病的牙齒,並在必要時用人工牙齒進行替換,"1759年,來自法語 dentiste,源自 dent "tooth",源自拉丁語 dens(源自 PIE 詞根 *dent- "tooth")+ -ist。
Dentist figures it now in our newspapers, and may do well enough for a French puffer, but we fancy Rutter is content with being called a tooth-drawer. [Edinburgh Chronicle, Sept. 15, 1759]
Dentist 現在在我們的報紙中經常出現,對於法國人來說可能足夠好,但我們想魯特爾(Rutter)滿足於被稱爲 tooth-drawer. [愛丁堡編年史,1759年9月15日]
(Tooth-drawer 自14世紀晚期就有記載。相關詞彙: Dentistic; dentistical。