frail
English
/fɹeɪl/
adj
Definitions
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish
- Weak; infirm.
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fraile derived from Latin fragilis (id) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (break, crack, split).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰreg-
Gloss
break, crack, split
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- break English
- diffraction English
- frailish English
- frailly English
- frailness English
- frailsome English
- prefrail English
- refract English
- refraction English
- refringence English
- *fragulare, *frag(u)lāre Latin
- confringere Latin
- diffractus Latin
- fractio Latin
- fractura Latin
- fractūra Latin
- fragilis Latin
- fragilitas Latin
- fragmentum Latin
- frangere Latin
- frango Latin
- frangō Latin
- frāctura Latin
- frāctus Latin
- frāctūra Latin
- infractio Latin
- infringere Latin
- refrenare Latin
- brechen German
- erbrechen German
- fragile Italian
- frale Italian
- breken Dutch, Flemish
- fragile French
- frêle French
- frágil Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰreHg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰreg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰrāg- Proto-Indo-European
- frágil Portuguese
- *brak- Proto-Germanic
- *brekaną Proto-Germanic
- *brekō Proto-Germanic
- *brukka- Proto-Germanic
- *brukkô Proto-Germanic
- broiier Old French
- fraile Old French
- fràgil Catalan, Valencian
- fraged Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- răsfrânge Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- brehhan Old High German
- fragile Middle French
- 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- brejo Old Portuguese
- breka Old Frisian
- *breg(i)štā Proto-Albanian