frontispiece
Meaning of frontispiece
- an illustration facing the title page of a book.
- the principal face of a building.
late 16th century (in frontispiece (sense 2)): from French frontispice or late Latin frontispicium ‘facade’, from Latin frons, front- ‘front’ + specere ‘to look’. The change in the ending (early in the word's history) was by association with piece.
Information about frontispiece
- It is a name.
- The plural form of frontispiece is: frontispieces.
- Languages in which frontispiece is used:
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Hyphenation of frontispiece
fron-tispiece
- It consists of 2 syllables and 12 chars.
- frontispiece is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with frontispiece
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