fronte

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Galician

fronte (forehead)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fronte, from Latin frontem, accusative of frōns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾonte/
  • Rhymes: -onte
  • Hyphenation: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. (anatomy) forehead

Interlingua

Noun

fronte (plural frontes)

  1. (anatomy) forehead

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frontem (“forehead”). For sense 2 compare the Latin etymon and derivatives in Italian like sfrontato (“shameless”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfron.te/
  • Audio (female voice "la fronte")::(file)
  • Rhymes: -onte
  • Hyphenation: frón‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural fronti)

  1. (anatomy) forehead, brow
  3. (literary, figurative) one's feelings, especially of shame
    • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, line 81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      […] rispuos’io con vergognosa fronte.
      I answered with shame.
  4. (poetry, prosody) the two initial quatrains of an Italian sonnet

Noun

fronte m (plural fronti)

  1. (meteorology) squall line, front
  2. (military) front
  3. opposite

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

fronte

  1. ablative singular of frōns

Middle English

Noun

fronte

  1. Alternative form of frount

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fron‧te

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fronte f, from Latin frontem f.

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. forehead
  2. front

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French front m.

Noun

fronte m (plural frontes)

  1. (Brazil) front (military)
    Synonym: frente

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾonte/
  • Rhymes: -onte
  • Syllabification: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of frente.

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