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English
Noun
frontispice (plural frontispices)
- Archaic form of frontispiece.
Usage notes
- Formerly prescribed by some as the “correct” form instead of frontispiece.[1][2]
References
- ^ [Ebenezer Cobham] Brewer (1880) Rules for English Spelling; , London: Jarrold and Sons, , page 165: “frontispiece for frontispice. The last syllable is specium, a view. Lat[in] frontispicium, Fr[ench] frontispice, a view on the front page. This word should be corrected”.
- ^ E S Dodgson (1905 August 19) “Letter of Emanuel of Portugal to Pope Julian II.”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc., 10th series, volume IV, number 86, London, page 154, column 1: “Senhor Annibal Fernandes Thomaz, the well-known archeologist of Rua das Lamas 14, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, has shown me in his library a plaquette of four folios in roman letter, with the following title on the frontispice (not frontispiece, if you please):—[…]”.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin frontispicium.
Pronunciation
Noun
frontispice m (plural frontispices)
- frontispiece
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