frons

See also: fröns

English

Grasshopper-head: a: antenna; b: ocelli; c: vertex; d: compound eye; e: occiput; f: gena; g: pleurostoma; h: mandible; i: labial palp; j: maxillary palps; k: maxilla; l: labrum; m: clypeus; n: frons

Etymology

Latin frons (“front”).

Noun

frons

(anatomy) In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
(entomology) The front part of the epicranium or head capsule of many insects; generally speaking the frons is the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Generally it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for frons in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /frons/, [frõːs]

Etymology 1

Frons (forehead) virī.

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t- (compare Irish braine (“prow, edge”), Old Norse brandr (“sword blade”)), from *bʰren- (“project”). See below.

Noun

frōns f (genitive frontis); third declension

(anatomy) forehead
brow, countenance (as an indicator of feelings)
front, facade
foremost part of anything
cover (of a book or scroll)
circumference (of a wheel)
(figuratively) outside, exterior, appearance

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frōns	frontēs
Genitive	frontis	frontium
Dative	frontī	frontibus
Accusative	frontem	frontēs
Ablative	fronte	frontibus
Vocative	frōns	frontēs

Derived terms

frontālia
frontālis
frontātī

Descendants

Dalmatian: fruant
Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: frãmti, frãmte, frumti, frumte, frunti, frunte
- Romanian: frunte
Italian: fronte
Old French: front
- French: front (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: front
- → Dutch: front
- → Middle English: frount, frunt, front, frownt, frunte, fronte, frownte, frounte, ffrount, ffront, frountte
  - English: front
    - Tok Pisin: fran
    - → Japanese: フロント (furonto)
    - → Korean: 프런트 (peureonteu)
  - Scots: front
Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: frente
Old Occitan: front
- Catalan: front
- Occitan: front
Old Portuguese: fronte
- Galician: fronte
- Portuguese: fronte
Old Spanish: fruente
- Ladino:
  Hebrew: פ׳רינטי‎
  
  Latin: frente
- Spanish: frente
  - → Portuguese: frente
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: front
- Romansch: frunt, frùnt, front
Romagnol: frònta
Sardinian: fronte, fronti, frunte
Sicilian: frunti
Venetian: front
→ Spanish: frontis

Etymology 2

frons (leafy branch)

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-d- (compare Old English brant (“steep”), Latvian bruôds (“roof ridge”), from *bʰren- (“project”).

Noun

frōns f (genitive frondis); third declension

leaves, foliage, a leafy branch
(poetic) a garland of leaves
foliage

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	frōns	frondēs
Genitive	frondis	frondium
Dative	frondī	frondibus
Accusative	frondem	frondēs
Ablative	fronde	frondibus
Vocative	frōns	frondēs

Derived terms

frondārius
frondātiō
frondātor
frondeō

frondeus
frondifer
frondōsus

Related terms

frondēscō

Descendants

Italian: fronda
Old Portuguese: [Term?]
- Portuguese: fronde
Old Spanish: [Term?]
- Spanish: fronda
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: frind
→ English: frond
→ French: fronde
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *frondia
- Eastern Romance:
  - Romanian: frunză
  - Aromanian: frãndzã, frundzã, frãnzã, frunzã
- Italian: fronza
- Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  - Galician: fronza
  - Portuguese: fronça
- Sardinian: frundza

References

frons in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
frons in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
frons in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
frons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to frown: frontem contrahere (opp. explicare)
- to beat one's brow: frontem ferire, percutere
- one can see it in his face: in fronte alicuius inscriptum est
- not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere

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