dentiscalpium

From dens (“tooth”) +‎ scalpō (“to scratch”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /den.tisˈkal.pi.um/, [d̪ɛn̪t̪ɪs̠ˈkäɫ̪piʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /den.tisˈkal.pi.um/, [d̪en̪t̪isˈkälpium]

dentiscalpium n (genitive dentiscalpiī or dentiscalpī); second declension

1. toothpick

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “dentiscalpium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dentiscalpium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.