frontalia

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Latin

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Etymology

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From frons (forehead) + -alia (suffix, items connected with the given area).

Noun

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frontālia n pl (genitive frontālium); third declension

  1. (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.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

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References

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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.