frontalia

Latin

Etymology

From frons (“forehead”) + -alia (suffix, items connected with the given area).

Noun

frontālia n pl (genitive frontālium); third declension

1. (plural only) A frontlet: an ornament for the forehead, generally for horses
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 37.40:

     Ingentes ipsi erant; addebant speciem frontalia et cristae et tergo impositae turres turribusque superstantes praeter rectorem quaterni armati.

     They themselves were enormous; the frontlet, plumes, and howdahs set upon their back and the armed troops, four each, standing upon the howdahs in addition to the rider were adding to the sight.

Declension

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

Case	Plural
Nominative	frontālia
Genitive	frontālium
Dative	frontālibus
Accusative	frontālia
Ablative	frontālibus
Vocative	frontālia

Related terms

• frōns
• frontālis

References

“frontalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• frontalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.