fraile
English
Adjective
fraile
- Obsolete spelling of frail
Anagrams
- A-lifer, failer, farlie, ferial
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfraj.le/
- Rhymes: -ajle
- Hyphenation: frài‧le
Adjective
fraile (plural fraili)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of frale
Anagrams
- Falier, ferali, filare, filerà, refila
Old French
Alternative forms
- fraelle
- fraille
- frale
- freille
- frelle
- fresle
Etymology
From Latin fragilis. Compare the borrowed term fragile.
Adjective
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
- Vielz est e frailes, tot s’en vait declinant
- 11th century, La Vie de Saint Alexis
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
- → English: frail
- French: frêle
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɾaile/ [ˈfɾai̯.le]
- Rhymes: -aile
- Syllabification: frai‧le
Noun
fraile m (plural frailes)
- friar
- Synonym: fray
Further reading
- “fraile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014