etymologies of "wisdom teeth"
I was googling like a happy camper and found this on wiki:
"They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late-much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.
The English wisdom tooth is derived from Latin dens sapientiae."
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"They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late-much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.
The English wisdom tooth is derived from Latin dens sapientiae."
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