Noun: frons
| Singular | frons |
| Plural | frontes |
Sample Sentences
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In a generalized insect the frons extends from the vertex to the frontoclypeal (epistomal) suture, between the two anterior tentorial pits. [1981, J. F. McAlpine, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 14:]
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In most blondeliines (and in most Tachinidae in general), males have a narrower frons than conspecific females […] [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:]
Nouns inflected like frons
perforans,
sextans,
proferens,
dodrans,
communitas,
ductus deferens,
civitas,
hemipons,
frons,
lebes,
orans,
teres,
abducens,
veritas,
quadrans,
aseitas,
triens,
subgens,
paries,
dens, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frōns (“the forehead, brow, front”). Doublet of front. See: Latin Nouns '
frōns'.