Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 737.frōns on page 737
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frōns forehead
frōns is a Latin Noun that primarily means forehead.
Definitions for frōns
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
forehead, brow, front
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The forehead, brow (of a person). (b) (as the place where garlands or crowns are worn). (c) (as the part branded). (d) (of animals, esp. as the place where the horns grow). (e) ~ntibus aduersis (and sim), face to face, head on.
- 2
A person's brow as the mirror of his feelings, expression, countenance, etc.; (prov.) ~ns occipitio prior est (or sim.), the master's brow is better than his back (i.e. his presence makes for better work). (b) ~ntem contrahere (adducere, etc.) to knit one's brows, frown; opp. ~ntem remittere (exporrigere, etc.). (c) (pregn.) a grave or solemn mien.
- 3
A person's brow regarded as expressing modesty or shyness or the lack of these; ~ntem perfricare, to wipe the blushes off one's face, assume a bold air. (b) (pregn.) a sense of what is decent or fitting, modesty, propriety.
Sentences with frōns
Latin to English
Regem non faciunt opes, non vestis Tyriae color, non frontis nota regiae, non auro nitidae fores; rex est qui posuit metus et diri mala pectoris.Compare A king neither riches make, nor robe of Tyrian hue, nor crown upon the royal brow, nor doors with gold bright gleaming; a king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longing of an evil heart.
Me doctarum hederae praemia frontium dis miscent superis.Compare For me, the ivy crown which rewards the poet's brow admits me to the company of gods.
Mutavit mentem populus levis et calet uno scribendi studio; pueri patresque severi fronde comas vincti cenant.Compare The fickle populace has changed its taste, and nowadays is fevered with a universal passion for writing. Boys and grave fathers alike sit at supper with their brows crowned with leaves.
Hic bos a medius frons unus cornu exsisto, excelsus magisque directus hic, qui ego notus sum, cornu.Compare From the middle of the forehead of this bull one horn rises, longer and straighter than those horns which are known to us.
Declension table for frōns
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | frōns | frondēs |
| Gen. | frondis | frondium / -um |
| Dat. | frondī | frondibus |
| Acc. | frondem | frondēs / -īs |
| Abl. | fronde | frondibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 477.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 737.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 124.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "frōns, frontis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/frons-frontis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 477.on page 477
