frount

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French front, from Latin frons.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /frunt/, /fruːnt/[2]

Noun

frount (plural frountes)

  1. The front; the forward side of something:
    1. The front of the head; the face or forehead.
    2. The front or head of an army.
    3. The front of a building or property.
  2. (rare) A frontal projection or point.
  3. (rare) A drape over an altar.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: front (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: front

References

  1. ^ “frǒunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2018.
  2. ^ Strandberg, Otto (1919), “frunt s.”, in The rime-vowels of Cursor mundi; a phonological and etymological investigation‎[1], Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A.-B., →OCLC, § 401, page 196.
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