fronte

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

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

fronte (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfron.te/

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• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: frón‧te

fronte f (plural fronti)

1. (anatomy) forehead, brow
2. (literary, figurative) one's feelings, especially of shame
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto I”, in Inferno, line 81:

     […] rispuos’io con vergognosa fronte.

     […] I answered with shame.

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

fronte m (plural fronti)

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

• far fronte a
• fronte temporalesco

• frontale

fronte

1. ablative singular of frōns

fronte

1. Alternative form of frount

• Hyphenation: fron‧te

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. front
2. forehead

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. Obsolete spelling of frente

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