Etymograph

English

shopfront

From shop + front.

A compound of shop + front

Proto-Indo-European *skub-

Proto-Germanic *skupp- ‘barn’

Old English sċoppa ‘shed’

Middle English shoppe

English shop

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Today it means

noun The side of a shop that faces the street, usually having display windows.

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

Etymograph / shopfront