dentist(n.)
"牙医,其职业是清洁和拔牙,治疗有病的牙齿,并在必要时用人工牙齿进行替换,"1759年,来自法语 dentiste,源自 dent "tooth",源自拉丁语 dens(源自 PIE 词根 *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 现在在我们的报纸中经常出现,对于法国人来说可能足够好,但我们想鲁特尔(Rutter)满足于被称为 tooth-drawer. [爱丁堡编年史,1759年9月15日]
(Tooth-drawer 自14世纪晚期就有记载。相关词汇: Dentistic; dentistical。
该词起源时间:1759年