fronta

English

Contraction

fronta

1. Contraction of front +‎ of.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Front (or older Fronte), from French front or Italian fronte, from Latin frōns, frontis (“forehead, front”). The sense “queue/line” is a semantic development unique to Czech.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfronta]

• Audio:

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Noun

fronta f

1. queue
2. (meteorology) front
3. (military) front

Declension

Declension of fronta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	fronta	fronty
genitive	fronty	front
dative	frontě	frontám
accusative	frontu	fronty
vocative	fronto	fronty
locative	frontě	frontách
instrumental	frontou	frontami

Derived terms

• teorie front f

Further reading

• “fronta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “fronta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “fronta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
• Jiří Rejzek: Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2001.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfronta/
• Rhymes: -onta
• Syllabification: fron‧ta

Adjective

fronta (accusative singular frontan, plural frontaj, accusative plural frontajn)

1. front

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

fronta m (genitive singular fronta, nominative plural frontaí)

1. (meteorology, military) front

Declension

Declension of fronta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative fronta frontaí vocative a fhronta a fhrontaí genitive fronta frontaí dative fronta frontaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an fronta na frontaí genitive an fhronta na bhfrontaí dative leis an bhfronta don fhronta leis na frontaí

Derived terms

• an fronta baile (“the home front”)
• an Fronta Thiar (“the Western Front”)
• fronta aimsire (“weather front”)
• fronta fuar (“cold front”)
• fronta te (“warm front”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fronta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fronta	fhronta	bhfronta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fronta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “fronta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026