Etymology

frontalis

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Today it means: A muscle of the forehead, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle. Full definition →

New Latin frontālis
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The story

  1. New Latin · borrowed fromfrontālis
  2. English todayfrontalis

Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, clipping of mūsculus frontālis (“frontal muscle”). Doublet of frontal.

Words from the same roots

New Latinfrontālis all →

frontal

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