esfronté

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

1. archaic form of effronté

esfronté

1. past participle of esfronter

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”).

esfronté m (oblique and nominative feminine singular esfrontee)

1. shameless

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

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “esfronté”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.