fraile
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fraile
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fraile (plural fraili)
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
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
Declension
[edit]Declension of fraile
Descendants
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fraile m (plural frailes)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fraile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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