Frontispiece

Morpheme

Frontispiece

Type

free base

Denotation

facade, principal face

Etymology

Middle French frontispice with spelling influenced by piece; probably from Italian frontespizio and Medieval Latin frontispicium; Latin frontis + assimilated form of -spicere, from specere + -ium

Evidence

frontispiece, frontispieced, frontispieces, frontispiecing

See Also

Front, Frons, Spice, Spece