different between affronter vs affronted

English

Etymology

affront +? -er

Noun

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

Translations

French

Etymology

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 *affront?re (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem. Compare Italian affrontare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.f???.te/

Verb

affronter

1. to confront, face
2. (reflexive) to face off, to clash

Conjugation

Synonyms

• faire face

Further reading

• “affronter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

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 *affront?re (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem.

Verb

affronter

1. (Jersey) to face; to confront

English

Adjective

affronted (comparative more affronted, superlative most affronted)

1. defiant

Derived terms

• unaffronted

Verb

affronted

1. simple past tense and past participle of affront