fronde

• (France) IPA^(key): /fʁɔ̃d/

Borrowed from Latin frondem (“leafage”). The dated sense is from Classical Latin, and attested since the fifteenth century; the other is from scientific Latin, due to Carolus Linnaeus, and attested since the eighteenth century.

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (dated, literary) foliage
2. frond

• frondaison

Ultimately from Latin funda (“sling, slingshot”), probably through a Vulgar Latin *fundula, and a contracted, metathesized derivative *flunda (compare Italian fionda).

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. sling, slingshot
2. (by extension) criticism, opposition

   Synonym: critique

• frondeur

fronde

1. inflection of fronder:
   1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fronde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• fonder, fondre, refond

• IPA^(key): /ˈfron.de/
• Rhymes: -onde
• Hyphenation: frón‧de

fronde f (plural frondi)

1. obsolete form of fronda

fronde f

1. plural of fronda

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.dɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.de]

fronde

1. ablative singular of frōns (“leafy branch; foliage”)

   Limumque tenent in fronde relictum. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovidius)

   And they hold some leftover mud in their foliage. (Metamorphoses, 1, 347, Ovid)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfrɔn.de]

frondē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of frondeō

• "fronde", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Latin frondem (“leafy branch”).

• Hyphenation: fron‧de

fronde f (plural frondes)

1. (botany) frond

• “fronde”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fronde”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾonde/ [ˈfɾõn̪.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -onde
• Syllabification: fron‧de

fronde m (plural frondes)

1. alternative form of fronda

• “fronde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025