confronté

confronté

See also: confronte

English

Etymology

From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kŏnfrŭnʹtā, IPA^(key): /kɒnˈfɹʌnteɪ/,[1]

Adjective

confronté (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of two animals)[1] Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.[1][2][3]

   Synonym: (but this also has another meaning) affronté

References

1. “‖confronté, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
2. Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, A-to-Z Guide to Heraldic Terms — C
3. Universal Technological Dictionary by George Crabb (1823)
     Facing one another, or full-faced

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French

Pronunciation

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Participle

confronté (feminine confrontée, masculine plural confrontés, feminine plural confrontées)

1. past participle of confronter

Further reading

• “confronté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• fonceront

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Spanish

Verb

confronté

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of confrontar