commonly known as a fingernail or toenail.
Unguis is the medical term meaning nail.
The medical root word 'unguis' refers to the nail.
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I think it might be 'dentis quod unguis' although I have no formal education in Latin.
Unquis is not a word, but unguis is a nail, claw, or hoof in animals, or a base of a flower petal that looks like a claw.
unguis, is (m) -- of a bird. ungula, ae (f) -- of a crab.The Latin equivalent of the English noun 'claw' is unguis. The Latin word is a masculine gender noun that means 'a finger or toe nail' of humans and 'a claw or hoof' of animals. But the Latin equivalent of the claw of a crab or of a nautilus is bracchium, which literally means 'the forearm'.
Onycho- is the medical terminology combining form meaning nail. The medical term for nail is unguis.
After going through two Latin dictionaries without finding a word strting with the letter y, I get the idea that there isn't one. The best I could come up with is that the Romans would use y in a Greek derived word, but not at the beginning of the word. The y is the symbol for the Greek letter upsilon. <><><> Preceding is a very good answer. The ancient Roman alphabet had only 21 letters- and Y was not one of them.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern --G-IS. That is, six letter words with 3rd letter G and 5th letter I and 6th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: haggis pagris unguis
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 6 words with the pattern ---UIS. That is, six letter words with 4th letter U and 5th letter I and 6th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: appuis ennuis maquis rahuis tenuis unguis
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -NG-IS. That is, six letter words with 2nd letter N and 3rd letter G and 5th letter I and 6th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: unguis
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 15 words with the pattern -N-U-S. That is, six letter words with 2nd letter N and 4th letter U and 6th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: annuls endues ennuis ensues incurs indues inputs inruns knaurs knouts oniums snouts ungues unguis ungums