fronde
See also: frondé
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Latin frondem (“leafage”). The dated sense is from Classical Latin, and attested since the fifteenth century; the other is from scientific Latin, due to Carolus Linnaeus, and attested since the eighteenth century.
Noun
editfronde f (plural frondes)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editUltimately from Latin funda (“sling, slingshot”), probably through a Vulgar Latin *fundula, and a contracted, metathesized derivative *flunda (compare Italian fionda).
Noun
editfronde f (plural frondes)
- sling, slingshot
- (by extension) criticism, opposition
- Synonym: critique
Derived terms
editVerb
editfronde
- inflection of fronder:
Further reading
edit- “fronde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editItalian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfronde f (plural frondi)
Noun
editfronde f
Latin
editVerb
editfrondē
Noun
editfronde
- ablative singular of frōns
- Limumque tenent in fronde relictum. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovidius)
- And they hold some leftover mud in their foliage. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovid)
References
edit- fronde 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)
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin frondem (“leafy branch”).
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: fron‧de
Noun
editfronde f (plural frondes)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfronde m (plural frondes)
- Alternative form of fronda
Further reading
edit- “fronde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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