frontale

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃.tal/

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Adjective

frontale

1. feminine singular of frontal

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːlə

Adjective

frontale

1. inflection of frontal:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin frontālis, from Latin frontem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fronˈta.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: fron‧tà‧le

Adjective

frontale (plural frontali)

1. frontal
2. head-on

Noun

frontale m (plural frontali)

1. head-on collision

   Synonym: scontro frontale

2. front part
3. (anatomy) frontal, frontal bone

   Synonym: osso frontale

4. (anatomy) frontalis, frontalis muscle

   Synonym: muscolo frontale

Related terms

• frontalità
• fronte
• frontalmente

Anagrams

• feltrano

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fronˈtaː.le/, [frɔn̪ˈt̪äːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fronˈta.le/, [fron̪ˈt̪äːle]

Adjective

frontāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of frontālis

Noun

frontāle n (genitive frontālis); third declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) altar frontal

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frontāle	frontālia
Genitive	frontālis	frontālium
Dative	frontālī	frontālibus
Accusative	frontāle	frontālia
Ablative	frontālī	frontālibus
Vocative	frontāle	frontālia

Related terms

• frontālia (“frontlet”)

References

• “frontale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• frontale 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)
• “frontale”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “frontale”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin