esfronté

French

Adjective

esfronté (feminine esfrontée, masculine plural esfrontés, feminine plural esfrontées)

1. Archaic form of effronté.

Old French

Etymology 1

Verb

esfronté

1. past participle of esfronter

Etymology 2

Inherited as a mixture of Late Latin exfrōns (“barefaced, shameless”), īnfrontātus (“without shame”) - based on frōns (“forehead; countenance; shame”). Compare Medieval Latin īnfrū̆nītus, īnfronītus, effronītus (“shameless, senseless, silly, impetuous”), effronter (“shamelessly”).

Adjective

esfronté m (oblique and nominative feminine singular esfrontee)

1. shameless

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Laurent d'Orléans to this entry?)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (esfronté, supplement)