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Latin
Etymology
From frons (“forehead”) + -alia (suffix, items connected with the given area).
Noun
frontālia n pl (genitive frontālium); third declension
- (plural only) A frontlet: an ornament for the forehead, generally for horses
27 BCE – 25 BCE,
Titus Livius,
Ab Urbe Condita 37.40:
- Ingentes ipsi erant; addebant speciem frontalia et cristae et tergo impositae turres turribusque superstantes praeter rectorem quaterni armati.
- They themselves were enormous; the frontlet, plumes, and howdahs set upon their back and the armed troops, four each, standing upon the howdahs in addition to the rider were adding to the sight.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
References
“frontalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frontalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.