frontal

From Middle English frountel, from Old French frontel, from Medieval Latin frontalis; equivalent to front +‎ -al. Cf. French frontal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹʌntəl/

frontal (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.

   a frontal attack

2. (anatomy) Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
3. (anatomy) Of or relating to the frontal plane.
4. Of or relating to a weather front.

• (humorous, about nudity) backal, sidal

frontal (plural frontals)

1. (anatomy) The bone at the front of the skull, behind the forehead.
2. (architecture) The façade of a building.
3. (Christianity) A drapery covering the front of an altar.
   • 1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism (page 27)

     Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.

4. (zootomy) Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.

From front +‎ -al, or borrowed from Medieval Latin frontalis (“frontal”), from Latin frons.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fɾonˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /fɾunˈtal/

frontal (masculine and feminine plural frontals)

1. frontal

frontal m (plural frontals)

1. frontal bone

• os frontal

• front

Borrowed from French frontal.

frontal

1. frontal

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

front +‎ -al; cf. also Medieval Latin frontalis, from Latin frons. See also fronteau and frontail.

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃.tal/

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frontal (feminine singular frontale, masculine plural frontaux, feminine plural frontales)

1. frontal (relating to the forehead)

• “frontal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• frôlant, ronflât

From fronte +‎ -al, or borrowed from Medieval Latin frontalis (“frontal”), from Latin frons.

frontal m or f (plural frontais)

1. frontal

frontal m (plural frontais)

1. (anatomy) the frontal bone

• IPA^(key): /fʀɔnˈtaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

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frontal (not comparable)

1. frontal

From fronte +‎ -al, or borrowed from Medieval Latin frontalis (“frontal”), from Latin frons.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɾõ.ˈtaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɾõ.ˈtaɫ/
• Hyphenation: fron‧tal

frontal m or f (plural frontais, comparable)

1. frontal

• fronteiro, anterior

• traseiro, posterior

frontal m (plural frontais)

1. frontal bone

• osso

• crânio

• occipital, parietal, temporal, esfenoide, etmoide

Borrowed from Medieval Latin frontalis (“frontal”), from Latin frons.

• IPA^(key): /fɾonˈtal/, [fɾõn̪ˈt̪al]
• Hyphenation: fron‧tal

frontal (plural frontales)

1. frontal

• nasofrontal

frontal m (plural frontales)

1. frontal bone
2. frontalis, frontalis muscle

• (bone): hueso frontal
• (muscle): músculo frontal

• frente

• “frontal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• frontal on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es