Etymology

fragility

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Today it means: The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Full definition →

Middle French fragilité ← Latin fragilitās
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfragilitās
  2. Middle French · borrowed fromfragilité
  3. English todayfragility

Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.

Words from the same roots

Latinfragilitās all →

frailty

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.