frondia

Latin

Etymology

Collective noun based on the neuter plural of frondeus (“leafy”), likely inspired by folia (originally "leaves", but often found as a collective meaning "foliage" in Late Latin). Attested in the Vetus Itala^[1] and also a late gloss.^[2]

Noun

frondia n pl (Late Latin)

foliage

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: frãndzã, frundzã, frãnzã, frunzã
- Istro-Romanian: frunzĕ
- Megleno-Romanian: frunză, frund̦ă
- Romanian: frunză
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fronza (archaic)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: frunza (Logudorese), fròngia (Campidanese)
Gallo-Romance:
- Lorrain: frogne
North Italian:
- Ligurian: [ˈfruŋʃa]
Ibero-Romance:
- Leonese: froncia
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fronça
  - Galician: fronza
  - ⇒ Portuguese: franças (crossed with frasca)

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “fronda”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 963
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “frondia”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 263

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frons, -dis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 818
^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1894) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Placidus Liber glossarum, glossaria reliqua‎^[1], volume V, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 495: “Comat ornat frondia”

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frons, -dis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 818

[2] Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1894) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Placidus Liber glossarum, glossaria reliqua‎^[1], volume V, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 495: “Comat ornat frondia”

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