fronda.
leafy branch
Meaning & usage
leafy branch
leaf
a plant's branches and foliage
a superfluous literary flourish
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Latin frondem (“leafy branch”). Doublet of fronza.
movement of covert opposition
vento di fronda
fare la fronda
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French fronde (“slingshot; opposition”), ultimately from Latin funda (“sling, slingshot”), probably through a contracted, metathesized diminutive form (Vulgar Latin *flunda ← *fundula).
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