fronte

Galician

fronte (forehead)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonte/ [ˈfɾon̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Interlingua

Noun

fronte (plural frontes)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin frontem (“forehead”). For noun 1 sense 2 compare the Latin etymon and derivatives in Italian like sfrontato (“shameless”). Cognate with Sicilian frunti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfron.te/

• Audio (la fronte):

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• Rhymes: -onte
• Hyphenation: frón‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural fronti)

1. (anatomy) forehead, brow
3. (literary, figurative) one's feelings, especially of shame
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], line 81; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] rispuos’io con vergognosa fronte.

     […] I answered with shame.

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

Noun

fronte m (plural fronti)

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

Derived terms

• fare fronte
• fronte temporalesco

Related terms

• difronte
• frontale

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.te]

Noun

fronte m or f

1. ablative singular of frōns (“forehead; brow; front”)

Middle English

Noun

fronte

1. alternative form of frount

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɾõ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: fron‧te

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin frontem f

Old Galician-Portuguese fronte f

Portuguese fronte

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fronte f, from Latin frontem f.

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. forehead
2. front

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French front m.

Noun

fronte m (plural frontes)

1. (Brazil) front (military)

   Synonym: frente

Further reading

• “fronte”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fronte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonte/ [ˈfɾõn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -onte
• Syllabification: fron‧te

Noun

fronte f (plural frontes)

1. obsolete form of frente

Further reading

• “fronte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026