frente

From Latin frōns, frontis.

frente f (plural frentes)

1. forehead (part of face above eyebrows)

From Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frōns, frontis.

frente f (Hebrew spelling פ׳רינטי)

1. (anatomy) forehead

Borrowed from Spanish frente f, from Old Spanish fruente f, from Latin frontem m. Doublet of fronte and front.

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• Hyphenation: fren‧te

frente f (plural frentes)

1. front (facing side)

   Synonym: dianteira

   Antonym: (Mozambique) trás

2. front (main entrance side)

   Synonym: entrada

3. (military) front (area or line of conflict)

   Synonym: fronte

4. (meteorology) front

• “frente”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “frente”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾente/ [ˈfɾẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: fren‧te

frente f (plural frentes)

1. (anatomy) forehead, brow

frente m (plural frentes)

1. front
2. (architecture) front
3. (military) front
4. (weather) front
5. (politics) front

• → Portuguese: frente

• “frente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024