fruntiera

Corsican

A fruntiera di a Francia.

Etymology

From Old Occitan frontiera. Cognates include Italian frontiera and French frontière.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frũtiˈera/
• Hyphenation: fun‧ti‧e‧ra

Noun

fruntiera f (plural fruntiere)

1. border, frontier
   • 2019, Zosimov Premudroslovsky StaVl, Mutanti Sovetti: Fantasia divertente, →ISBN:

     Luntanu, luntanu à a fruntiera di l'antica URSS (avà Kazakistan) è a Cina, in u sudeste di a regione Semipalatinsk, vicinu à a cità de Ayaguz, traduttu cum'è "Oh toro", ci era un terrenu di teste nucleare cù una atmosfera radioattiva infettata ottenuta da a negligenza di i schientifichi in opera.

     Far, far away on the border of the former USSR (now Kazakhstan) and China, in the southeast of the region Semipalatinsk, next to the city of Ayaguz, translated as "Oh toro", there was a terrain of nuclear testing with an infected radioactive atmosphere obtained due to the negligence of the scientists in operation.

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian frontiera and/or Sicilian fruntera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frunˈtɪː.ra/

Noun

fruntiera f (plural fruntieri)

1. border, frontier
   • 2018 [1977], Alfred Massa, L-Istar tal-Imgħoddi, 2nd edition, Horizons, page 81:

     “Iżda l-fruntieri huma kollha magħluqin”, għedtlu jien.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)