frente
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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin frōns, frontis.
Noun
frente f (plural frentes)
- forehead (part of face above eyebrows)
Ladino
Etymology
From Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frōns, frontis.
Noun
frente f (Hebrew spelling פ׳רינטי)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish frente f, from Old Spanish fruente f, from Latin frontem m. Doublet of fronte and front.
Pronunciation
Noun
frente f (plural frentes)
- front (facing side)
- front (main entrance side)
- Synonym: entrada
- (military) front (area or line of conflict)
- Synonym: fronte
- (meteorology) front
Derived terms
- à frente
- à frente de seu tempo
- bola pra frente
- candeia que vai à frente alumia duas vezes
- colocar o carro à frente dos bois
- com uma mão na frente e a outra atrás
- de frente
- em frente a
- encarar de frente
- enfrentar
- frente a
- frente ártica
- frente de batalha
- frente fria
- frente popular
- frente quente
- frentear
- frentista
- ir em frente
- na frente de
- para a frentex
Related terms
Further reading
- “frente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “frente”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).
Pronunciation
Noun
frente f (plural frentes)
Derived terms
Noun
frente m (plural frentes)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- al frente
- de frente (“head-on”)
- en frente de
- enfrentar
- enfrente
- frente a
- frente a frente (“face-to-face; one-on-one”)
- frente cálido
- frente de batalla
- frente de onda
- frente en alto (“head held high”)
- frente popular
- frente por frente
- frentera
- hacer frente
- no tener dos dedos de frente
- ponerse al frente
Related terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: frente
Further reading
- “frente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10