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front
front (line of battle) /ˈfront/
noun#3310 most common
Also: front (weather system), front (united political/social front)
Example sentences
Tatăl meu a plecat pe front.
My father went to the front.
Frontul era aproape de oraș.
The front was close to the city.
Soldații au luptat pe frontul de est.
The soldiers fought on the eastern front.
Un front rece va aduce ploi mâine.
A cold front will bring rain tomorrow.
Partidele au format un front comun împotriva corupției.
The parties formed a common front against corruption.
Fronturile de luptă s-au schimbat de mai multe ori în timpul războiului.
The battle fronts shifted several times during the war.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | frontul | fronturile |
| Genitive | frontului | fronturilor |
| Accusative | frontul | fronturile |
| Vocative | frontule | fronturilor |
Word family
frontalfrontal, head-on
frontierăborder, frontiera înfruntato confront, to face
confruntareconfrontation
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "front" from French "front" in the nineteenth century, part of a wave of French loanwords that modernized Romanian vocabulary. The French word descends from Latin "frons, frontis", meaning forehead or brow, which extended to mean the foremost part of anything, including an army's leading edge. The military sense of a battle line is the oldest use in Romanian; the weather and political senses came later by analogy.
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