As someone who’s had 3 of their 4 wisdom teeth vey painfully removed, they are not something I really like to think about.
However, the Spanish name of judgement tooth or molar of judgment (depending on your translation) is too good not to share.
Interesting in Catalan it’s molar of sense, in Basque it’s tooth of wisdom but in Galician we’re back to molar of judgment.
Here’s a full list of the name in various European languages with a literal translation:
| Language | Term | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | dhëmbi i pjekurisë | tooth of maturity |
| Basque | jakinduria hortz | tooth of wisdom |
| Belarusian | зуб мудрасці (zub mudrasci) | tooth of wisdom |
| Bosnian | umnjak | wise tooth |
| Bulgarian | мъдрец (mŭdrets) | wise man |
| Catalan | queixal del seny | molar of sense |
| Croatian | umnjak | wise tooth |
| Czech | zub moudrosti | tooth of wisdom |
| Danish | visdomstand | wisdom tooth |
| Dutch | verstandskies | wisdom molar |
| Estonian | tarkusehammas | tooth of wisdom |
| Finnish | viisaudenhammas | tooth of wisdom |
| French | dent de sagesse | tooth of wisdom |
| Galician | moa do xuízo | molar of judgment |
| German | Weisheitszahn | wisdom tooth |
| Greek | φρονιμίτης (fronimítis) | prudent tooth |
| Hungarian | bölcsességfog | wisdom tooth |
| Icelandic | viskutönn | wisdom tooth |
| Irish | fiacail eagna | tooth of wisdom |
| Italian | dente del giudizio | tooth of judgment |
| Latvian | gudrības zobs | tooth of wisdom |
| Lithuanian | protinis dantis | intellectual tooth |
| Macedonian | забот на мудроста | tooth of wisdom |
| Maltese | sinna tal-għerf | tooth of wisdom |
| Norwegian | visdomstann | wisdom tooth |
| Polish | ząb mądrości | tooth of wisdom |
| Portuguese | dente do siso | tooth of sense |
| Romanian | măsea de minte | tooth of mind |
| Russian | зуб мудрости (zub mudrosti) | tooth of wisdom |
| Serbian | умњак (umnjak) | wise tooth |
| Slovak | zub múdrosti | tooth of wisdom |
| Slovenian | modrostni zob | tooth of wisdom |
| Spanish | muela del juicio | molar of judgment |
| Swedish | visdomstand | wisdom tooth |
| Turkish | yirmi yaş dişi | twenty-year tooth |
| Ukrainian | зуб мудрості (zub mudrosti) | tooth of wisdom |
| Welsh | dant doethineb | tooth of wisdom |
What’s your favourite name for it?
Lovisa says
Icelandic is wrong that is just the direct translation and not a word. Real word is endajaxl which is more like “molar at the end”