confronté
See also: confronte
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏnfrŭnʹtā, IPA(key): /kɒnˈfɹʌnteɪ/,[1]
Adjective
[edit]confronté (not comparable)
- (heraldry, of two animals)[1] Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.[1][2][3]
- Synonym: (but this also has another meaning) affronté
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “‖confronté, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
- ^ Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, A-to-Z Guide to Heraldic Terms — C
- ^ Universal Technological Dictionary by George Crabb (1823)
Facing one another, or full-faced
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Participle
[edit]confronté (feminine confrontée, masculine plural confrontés, feminine plural confrontées)
Further reading
[edit]- “confronté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]confronté
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