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frontespizio

title page

noun frohn-teh-SPEE-tsyoh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: Medieval Latin frontispicium, 'front face of a building'

Also means

frontispiece

Usage Note

Frontespizio originally referred to the decorated facade of a building (related to fronte, forehead/front), then shifted to mean the ornamental page facing the title page of a book, and in modern Italian it typically means the title page itself. The plural is frontespizi (regular -io/-i drop).

Examples

"Il titolo appare sul frontespizio del libro."

Natural Translation

The title appears on the title page of the book.

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