esfronté

French

Adjective

esfronté (feminine esfrontée, masculine plural esfrontés, feminine plural esfrontées)

  1. Archaic form of effronté.

Old French

Verb

esfronté

  1. past participle of esfronter

Etymology 2

Inherited as a mixture of Late Latin exfrōns (“barefaced, shameless”), īnfrontātus (“without shame”) - based on frōns (“forehead; countenance; shame”). Compare Medieval Latin īnfrū̆nītus, īnfronītus, effronītus (“shameless, senseless, silly, impetuous”), effronter (“shamelessly”).

Adjective

esfronté m (oblique and nominative feminine singular esfrontee)

  1. shameless
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Laurent d'Orléans to this entry?)

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (esfronté, supplement)
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