verb/a.fʁɔ̃.te/
to confront, face; to face off, to clash
“Je rêve de plus me juger, car la vie me montre ce que je dois affronter.”
Inherited from Old French afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a French derivation a- + front + -er, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem. Compare Italian affrontare.