English

frontperson

From front + person.

A compound of front + person

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Latin persōna ‘mask; character, role’

Anglo-Norman parsone

Middle English persoun

Today it means

noun The lead singer of a band.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / frontperson