esfronté

== French == === Adjective === esfronté (feminine esfrontée, masculine plural esfrontés, feminine plural esfrontées) archaic form of effronté == Old French == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== esfronté past participle of esfronter === Etymology 2 === 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”). ==== Adjective ==== esfronté m (oblique and nominative feminine singular esfrontee) shameless (Can we find and add a quotation of Laurent d'Orléans to this entry?) === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “esfronté”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.