gracilis

English

Etymology

From Latin gracilis (“slender”). Doublet of gracile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡras.ɪ.lɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡræs.ə.lɪs/

Noun

gracilis (plural graciles)

1. (anatomy) A slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh.

Translations

Inner thigh most superficial muscle

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hoikkalihas
• German: Schlankmuskel m
• Polish: mięsień smukły m
• Russian: то́нкая мы́шца f (tónkaja mýšca)
• Swedish: smala lårmuskeln c

References

• “gracilis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gracilis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Gisclair

Latin

Etymology

From an Old Latin verb *graceō or *craceō (“to be meager, slim”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin, to wane”), related to Sanskrit कृश (kṛśa, “thin, lean”), Lithuanian karštu (“to age”), and Avestan 𐬐𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (kər^əsa, “meager, lean”).

Also compare cracens (“slender”) and Proto-Germanic *hurhaz (“lean”) whence Icelandic hor (“emaciation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.ki.lis/, [ˈɡräkɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.t͡ʃi.lis/, [ˈɡräːt͡ʃilis]

Adjective

gracilis (neuter gracile, comparative gracilior, superlative gracillimus, adverb graciliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. slender, slim, thin
2. meager, scanty, lean
3. (of style) unadorned, simple

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	gracilis	gracile		gracilēs	gracilia
Genitive	gracilis			gracilium
Dative	gracilī			gracilibus
Accusative	gracilem	gracile		gracilēs gracilīs	gracilia
Ablative	gracilī			gracilibus
Vocative	gracilis	gracile		gracilēs	gracilia

Synonyms

• (slender): gracilēns, gracilentus, cracens

Related terms

• gracilēns
• gracilentus
• gracilescō
• gracilitās
• graciliter
• gracilitūdo

Descendants

• Italian: graciolo (Lucchese)
• Old Catalan: grayle
• Old French: graisle, graille
  • French: grêle
• Old Occitan: graile
• Romansch: graschel
• → Albanian: grel
• → English: gracile
• → French: gracile
• → Italian: gracile
• → Spanish: grácil
• → Swedish: gracil

References

• “gracilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gracilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gracilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gracilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• gracilis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “gracilis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “gracilis”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 285
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gracĭlis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 201