fraile

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English

Adjective

fraile

  1. Obsolete spelling of frail.

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

fraile (plural fraili)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of frale

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

Declension

Declension of fraile
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject frailes fraile fraile
Oblique fraile fraile fraile
Plural Subject fraile frailes fraile
Oblique frailes frailes fraile

Descendants

  • Middle French: fresle
  • → Middle English: fraill

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾaile/
  • Rhymes: -aile
  • Syllabification: frai‧le

Noun

fraile m (plural frailes)

  1. friar
    Synonym: fray

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