fragilis
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *fragelis. Equivalent to frangō (“break, shatter”) + -ilis (“-ile”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) 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.
singular | plural | ||||
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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.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms suffixed with -ilis (deverbal)
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations