•headpiece (decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters) · frontispiece (illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine) · frontispiece (in old prints, a decorative title card made with copperplate technique)
a frontispiece; a building's main facade or a central, upper part of a main facade · a frontispiece; an illustration plate next to the title page of a book
Etymology tree Late Latin frons Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti Proto-Italic *spekjō Late Latin -spic- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Late Latin -ium Late Latin frontispiciumbor. French frontispicebor. Polish frontyspis Borrowed from French frontispice.