frontispicium

== Latin == === Etymology === From frons (“forehead, front”) +‎ -spic- (“to look, observe”, combining form of speciō) +‎ -ium. === Noun === frontispicium n (genitive frontispiciī); second declension (Medieval Latin) (architecture, chiefly of a church) facade the looks of one's forehead, forehead (Christianity) an certain ornament put on the altar of a church Synonym: frontāle === Declension === Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === "frontispicium", 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)