Etymology

frontage

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Today it means: The front part of a property or building that faces the street. Full definition →

English front ← Middle English frount ← Old French front
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The story

  1. Latinfrontem
  2. Old Frenchfront
  3. Middle Englishfrount
  4. Englishfront
  5. English todayfrontage

From front + -age.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.