Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

1. fronto, ōnis, m. amplif. [2. frons], one who has a broad forehead: ecquos naevum habere? ecquos silos, flaccos, frontones, capitones? Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80.
Hence,

2. Fronto, ōnis, m.,

  1. I. a proper name. So esp.: M. Cornelius Fronto, a famous Roman orator from Cirta, in Numidia, who lived about A. D. 90-168. Small portions of his writings have been discovered in palimpsests by Angelo Mai.
  2. II. Deriv. Frontōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Fronto, Frontonian: decreta, Dig. 29, 2, 99.
    Subst.: Frontōnĭāni, ōrum, m., pupils of Fronto, Frontonians, Sid. Ep. 1, 1.