fronde

• (French) IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃d/

Borrowed from Latin frons, frondis (“leafage”). The dated sense is from Classical Latin, and attested since the fifteenth century; the other is from scientific Latin, due to Carolus Linnaeus, and attested since the eighteenth century.

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (dated, literary) foliage
2. frond

• frondaison

Ultimately from Latin funda (“sling, slingshot”), probably through a Vulgar Latin *fundula, and a contracted, metathesized derivative *flunda (compare Italian fionda).

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. sling, slingshot
2. (by extension) criticism, opposition

• (criticism): critique

• frondeur

fronde

1. first-person singular indicative of fronder
2. third-person singular indicative of fronder
3. first-person singular subjunctive of fronder
4. third-person singular subjunctive of fronder
5. second-person singular imperative of fronder

• fonder, fondre, refond

• “fronde” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

fronde f

1. plural of fronda

frondē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of frondeō

fronde

1. ablative singular of frons

• fronde in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Latin frons (“leafy branch”), frondem.

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (botany) frond

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonde/, [ˈfɾõn̪d̪e]

fronde m (plural frondes)

1. Alternative form of fronda

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