frente

From Latin frōns, frontis.

frente f (plural frentes)

1. forehead (part of face above eyebrows)

From Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frōns, frontis.

frente f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פ׳רינטי‎)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Borrowed from Spanish frente, from Latin frōns, frontem. Compare the inherited doublet fronte.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: fren‧te

frente f (plural frentes)

1. front (facing side)

   Synonym: dianteira

   Antonym: (Mozambique) trás

2. front (main entrance side)

   Synonym: entrada

3. (military) front (area or line of conflict)

   Synonym: fronte

4. (meteorology) front

• frontal
• fronteira

From Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frontem, accusative of frōns, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾente/ [ˈfɾẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: fren‧te

frente f (plural frentes)

1. (anatomy) forehead, brow

frente m (plural frentes)

1. front
2. (architecture) front
3. (military) front
4. (weather) front
5. (Politics) front

• → Portuguese: frente

• “frente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014