fragilis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *fragelis. Equivalent to frangō (“break, shatter”) + -ilis (“-ile”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.ɡi.lis/, [ˈfräɡɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfra.d͡ʒi.lis/, [ˈfräːd͡ʒilis]
Adjective edit
fragilis (neuter fragile, comparative fragilior); third-declension two-termination adjective
- fragile, brittle, easily broken, breakable
- (figuratively) weak, frail, flimsy, perishable
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fragilis | fragile | fragilēs | fragilia | |
| Genitive | fragilis | fragilium | |||
| Dative | fragilī | fragilibus | |||
| Accusative | fragilem | fragile | fragilēs fragilīs |
fragilia | |
| Ablative | fragilī | fragilibus | |||
| Vocative | fragilis | fragile | fragilēs | fragilia | |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Asturian: fráxil
- → English: fragile
- Catalan: fràgil
- French: fragile
- → Romanian: fragil
- Friulian: fragjil
- Galician: fráxil
- Italian: fragile
- Occitan: fragil
- Old French: fraile, frele
- Piedmontese: fràgil
- → Portuguese: frágil
- Romanian: fraged (perhaps)
- Sicilian: fràgulu, sfràgulu
- → Spanish: frágil
- → German: fragil
References edit
- “fragilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fragilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fragilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.