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Latin
Etymology
From frontō (“person with a large forehead”), from frons (“forehead”) + -ō (suffix forming related nouns).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Frontō m sg (genitive Frontōnis); third declension
- a cognomen used by the gens Catia, Cornelia, Octavia, and others
- (rare) a masculine praenomen
Declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- “Fronto2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Fronto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.