Etymology

frons

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Today it means: In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex. Full definition →

Latin frōns
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromfrōns“the forehead, brow, front”
  2. English todayfrons

Borrowed from Latin frōns (“the forehead, brow, front”). Doublet of front.

Words from the same roots

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frondfrontoclypeus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.