fraile

fraile

1. Obsolete spelling of frail.

• A-lifer, failer, farlie, ferial

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraj.le/
• Rhymes: -ajle
• Hyphenation: frài‧le

fraile (plural fraili)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of frale

• Falier, ferali, filare, filerà, refila

• frale, fraelle, fraille, fraisle, freille, frelle, fresle

Inherited from Latin fragilis. Doublet of fragile. The ⟨s⟩ in the byforms fraisle, fresle is not expected (the development of fraise etc. being due to hiatus, which does not apply here). Probably it was influenced by graisle (“slim”) at the time when preconsonantal /s/ was becoming weak.

fraile m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fraile)

1. 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

• Middle French: fresle
  • French: frêle
• → Middle English: fraill
  • English: frail

Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾaile/ [ˈfɾai̯.le]
• Rhymes: -aile
• Syllabification: frai‧le

fraile m (plural frailes)

1. friar

   Synonym: fray

• “fraile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28