fronte

Galician

fronte (forehead)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fronte, from Latin frontem, accusative of frōns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonte/ [ˈfɾon̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Interlingua

Noun

fronte (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frontem (“forehead”). For sense 2 compare the Latin etymon and derivatives in Italian like sfrontato (“shameless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfron.te/

• Audio (la fronte):

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• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: frón‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural fronti)

1. (anatomy) forehead, brow
3. (literary, figurative) one's feelings, especially of shame
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], line 81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] rispuos’io con vergognosa fronte.

     […] I answered with shame.

4. (poetry, prosody) the two initial quatrains of an Italian sonnet

Noun

fronte m (plural fronti)

1. (meteorology) squall line, front
2. (military) front
3. opposite

Derived terms

• far fronte a
• fronte temporalesco

Related terms

• difronte
• frontale

Latin

Noun

fronte f or m

1. ablative singular of frōns

Middle English

Noun

fronte

1. Alternative form of frount

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: fron‧te

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fronte f, from Latin frontem f.

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. forehead
2. front

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French front m.

Noun

fronte m (plural frontes)

1. (Brazil) front (military)

   Synonym: frente

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonte/ [ˈfɾõn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Syllabification: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. Obsolete spelling of frente.

Further reading

• “fronte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10