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English

Borrowed from Latin frōns (“the forehead, brow, front”). Doublet of front.

frons (plural frontes)

(anatomy) In vertebrates, especially mammals, the forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
(entomology) The front part of the epicranium or head capsule of many insects; generally speaking, the area below or between the antennae and above the clypeus. Typically it lies between the genal or "cheek" areas on either side of the head.
- 1981, J. F. McAlpine, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 14:
  In a generalized insect the frons extends from the vertex to the frontoclypeal (epistomal) suture, between the two anterior tentorial pits.
(entomology) (of Diptera) The postfrons.
- 1985, D. M. Wood, “A taxonomic conspectus of the Blondeliini of North and Central America and the West Indies (Diptera: Tachinidae)”, in Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, volume 117, →DOI, page 9:
  In most blondeliines (and in most Tachinidae in general), males have a narrower frons than conspecific females […]

“frons”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“frons”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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Dutch

Borrowed from Middle French fronce, from Old French fronce, from Frankish *hrunkja (“wrinkle”) from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“to turn, bend”). The semantic narrowing to frowns on the forehead may be influenced by unrelated Latin frōns.

frons f (plural fronsen, diminutive fronsje n)

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