afrontar

Bedeutung

1. (transitive) to face, address, tackle, meet, deal with, confront, cope with, handle, bear, manage, (e.g. reality, an issue, a situation, a problem)
2. to defy, to brave
3. to afford, to bear (e.g. a cost, a loss)

Mit Bindestrich als

a‧fron‧tar

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/afɾonˈtaɾ/

Etymologie

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *affrontāre, derived from Latin ad- + frontem. Doublet of afrentar. The expected diphthongization of Latin stressed /ŏ/ is attested in medieval conjugations such as afruenta.

Sätze

Nunca más tuvo que afrontar una revuelta contra El Cairo .

Er musste sich nie mit einer Revolte gegen Kairo stellen.