fronde

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• (France) IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃d/

Borrowed from Latin frondem (“leafage”). The dated sense is from Classical Latin, and attested since the fifteenth century; the other is from scientific Latin, due to Carolus Linnaeus, and attested since the eighteenth century.

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (dated, literary) foliage
2. frond

• frondaison

Ultimately from Latin funda (“sling, slingshot”), probably through a Vulgar Latin *fundula, and a contracted, metathesized derivative *flunda (compare Italian fionda).

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. sling, slingshot
2. (by extension) criticism, opposition

   Synonym: critique

• frondeur

fronde

1. inflection of fronder:
   1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fronde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• fonder, fondre, refond

• IPA^(key): /ˈfron.de/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Hyphenation: frón‧de

fronde f (plural frondi)

1. Obsolete form of fronda.

fronde f

1. plural of fronda

frondē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of frondeō

fronde

1. ablative singular of frōns

   Limumque tenent in fronde relictum. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovidius)

   And they hold some leftover mud in their foliage. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovid)

• fronde in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Latin frondem (“leafy branch”).

• Hyphenation: fron‧de

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (botany) frond

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonde/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Syllabification: fron‧de

fronde m (plural frondes)

1. Alternative form of fronda

• “fronde”, 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