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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
frontale
- feminine singular of frontal
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
frontale
- inflection of frontal:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin frontālis, from Latin frontem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fronˈta.le/
- Rhymes: -ale
- Hyphenation: fron‧tà‧le
Adjective
frontale (plural frontali)
- frontal
- head-on
Noun
frontale m (plural frontali)
- head-on collision
- Synonym: scontro frontale
- front part
- (anatomy) frontal, frontal bone
- Synonym: osso frontale
- (anatomy) frontalis, frontalis muscle
- Synonym: muscolo frontale
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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
frontāle
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of frontālis
Noun
frontāle n (genitive frontālis); third declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) altar frontal
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
References
- “frontale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frontale 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)
- “frontale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “frontale”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin