fraile
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fraile
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fraile (plural fraili)
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Etymology edit
From Latin fragilis. Compare the borrowed term fragile.
Adjective edit
fraile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fraile)
- fragile; frail
- 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis
- Vielz est e frailes, tot s’en vait declinant
- It is old and frail, everything keeps declining
- 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis
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Declension of fraile
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.
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fraile m (plural frailes)
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Further reading edit
- “fraile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014