frontalia
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From frons (“forehead”) + -alia (suffix, items connected with the given area).
Noun
[edit]frontālia n pl (genitive frontālium); third declension
- (plural only) A frontlet: an ornament for the forehead, generally for horses
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 37.40:
- Ingentes ipsi erant; addebant speciem frontalia et cristae et tergo impositae turres turribusque superstantes praeter rectorem quaterni armati.
- They themselves were enormous; the frontlet, plumes, and howdahs set upon their back and the armed troops, four each, standing upon the howdahs in addition to the rider were adding to the sight.
- Ingentes ipsi erant; addebant speciem frontalia et cristae et tergo impositae turres turribusque superstantes praeter rectorem quaterni armati.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | frontālia |
| genitive | frontālium |
| dative | frontālibus |
| accusative | frontālia |
| ablative | frontālibus |
| vocative | frontālia |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]“frontalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frontalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.