frontispiciumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From frons (“forehead, front”) +‎ -spic- (“to look, observe”, combining form of speciō) +‎ -ium.

名詞

frontispicium n (genitive frontispiciī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (architecture, chiefly of a church) facade
2. the looks of one's forehead, forehead
3. (Christianity) an certain ornament put on the altar of a church

   Synonym: frontāle

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

参照

• "frontispicium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)