fragilis
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fragelis. Equivalent to frangō (“break, shatter”) + -ilis (“-ile”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfra.ɡɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfraː.d͡ʒi.lis]
Adjective
fragilis (neuter fragile, comparative fragilior); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Related terms
Descendants
- 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
- “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.