Galician

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fronte (forehead)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. (anatomy) forehead

Interlingua

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Noun

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fronte (plural frontes)

  1. (anatomy) forehead

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfron.te/
  • Audio (female voice "la fronte")::(file)
  • Rhymes: -onte
  • Hyphenation: frón‧te

Noun

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fronte f (plural fronti)

  1. (anatomy) forehead, brow
  2. (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], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      [] rispuos’io con vergognosa fronte.
      [] I answered with shame.
  3. (poetry, prosody) the two initial quatrains of an Italian sonnet

Noun

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fronte m (plural fronti)

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

Derived terms

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Latin

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Noun

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fronte

  1. ablative singular of frōns

Middle English

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Noun

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fronte

  1. Alternative form of frount

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: fron‧te

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. forehead
  2. front

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French front m.

Noun

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fronte m (plural frontes)

  1. (Brazil) front (military)
    Synonym: frente

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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fronte f (plural frontes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of frente.

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