frontispicium

From frons (“forehead, front”) + -spic- (“to look, observe”, combining form of speciō) + -ium.

frontispicium n (genitive frontispiciī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (architecture, chiefly of a church) facade
2. the looks of one's forehead, forehead
3. (Christianity) an certain ornament put on the altar of a church

   Synonym: frontāle

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• "frontispicium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)