affronter

From affront +‎ -er.

affronter (plural affronters)

1. Someone who affronts.
2. One who receives an affront.
   • 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:

     the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee

Inherited from Old French afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a French derivation a- +‎ front +‎ -er, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem. Compare Italian affrontare.

• IPA^(key): /a.fʁɔ̃.te/

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affronter

1. to confront, face
   • 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:

     Je rêve de plus me juger, car la vie me montre ce que je dois affronter.

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2. (reflexive) to face off, to clash

• faire face

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

From Old French afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a derivation a- +‎ front +‎ -er, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem.

affronter

1. (Jersey) to face; to confront