rostro
ES [ˈrostɾo] · Spanish for “face” · looks like English rostrum
English rostrum - the word for an elevated platform on which a public speaker stands and gives his speech is quite similar to Spanish rostro. It was similar enough for me to accept them as the same meaning, until at some point, the meaning did not make any sense to me. And I was right.
Rostro is a slightly formal Spanish word for the face.
Same word, sent to opposite ends of the body politic. Latin rostrum meant a beak or snout - literally “the gnawer,” from rodere, the root of rodent. Spanish ran it up the animal: beak → snout → the human face, rostro. English ran it out to sea: a rostrum was also a ship's beak-shaped prow, and the Roman speaker's platform in the Forum was studded with prows captured in battle - the Rostra - so rostrum became the podium you speak from. One beak, two destinations: a face and a stage.