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“forehead” in Latin
frōnsthe forehead, brow, front; the brow or countenance as an indicator of the feelings; as the mirror of a person's charactefrontōA person with a large foreheadaddūcōto lead, bring, draw or convey to or to oneself; to prompt, induce, cause; to persuade, moveattrahōto draw, pull or drag to or towards with force; to draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attractexporrigōto stretch or spread out; to smooth the brow; to extend, expand, widenexplicōto unfold, unfurl, uncoil, loosen, undo; to spread out, stretch out, extend, display, deploy; to disentangle, solve, set
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
forehead
frons: A high forehead, frons alta: a broad forehead, frons lata: a narrow forehead, frons brevis: a very narrow or small forehead, frons minima: a man with a broad forehead, fronto: to wrinkle one’s forehead, frontem contrahere, or adducere, or attrahere: to smooth one’s forehead, frontem remittere, or exporrigere (†), or explicare (†): to strike one’s forehead, frontem ferire, percutere: to rub one’s forehead, os perfricare: anything is written or expressed on anybody’s forehead, in fronte alicujus aliquid inscriptum est.
FIG., A brazen forehead, os durum, durissimum, or impudens; often os only: fiducia (confidence): what must his forehead be, who, etc.? quod tandem os est illius patroni, qui, etc.? (Cic.): you know what a brazen forehead the man has, nosti os hominis; nosti audaciam (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for forehead?
- The usual Latin words for “forehead” are frōns, frontō, addūcō; also attrahō, exporrigō, explicō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.