English

housefront

From house + front.

A compound of house + front

Proto-Germanic *hūsą

Proto-West Germanic *hūs

Old English hūs ‘dwelling’

Middle English hous ‘house’

English house

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Today it means

noun The front of a house, the side that faces the street.

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

Etymograph / housefront