frontalis

Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, clipping of mūsculus frontālis (“frontal muscle”). Doublet of frontal.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹʌnˈteɪ.lɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪs

frontalis (plural frontales)

1. (anatomy) A muscle of the forehead, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.

   Coordinate term: occipitalis

• alopecia liminaris frontalis
• frontal

• “frontalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• flat irons, flatirons, frost nail, frost-nail, inflators

From frons (“forehead, brow, front”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fronˈtaː.lis/, [frɔn̪ˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fronˈta.lis/, [fron̪ˈt̪äːlis]

frontālis (neuter frontāle); third-declension two-termination adjective (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) relating to the forehead; frontal

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• frontālia