fronto

Borrowed from English front, ultimately from Latin frōns. Doublet of frunto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfronto/

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• Hyphenation: fron‧to

fronto (accusative singular fronton, plural frontoj, accusative plural frontojn)

1. front

   Synonym: antaŭo

2. frontage

• alfronti (“to confront”)
• fronta (adjective)

fronto (plural fronti)

1. front
2. forehead

From frōns (“forehead”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming related nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn̪.t̪o]

frontō m (genitive frontōnis); third declension

1. A person with a large forehead

Third-declension noun.

• English: fronton
• French: fronton
• Italian: frontone
• Portuguese: frontão
• Sicilian: fruntuni
• Spanish: frontón

• “fronto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fronto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.