Etymology

frailty

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Today it means: The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived. Full definition →

Middle English frelete ← Old French fraileté ← Latin fragilitās
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  1. Latin · derived fromfragilitās
  2. Old French · derived fromfraileté
  3. Middle English · inherited fromfrelete
  4. English todayfrailty

From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.

Words from the same roots

Latinfragilitās all →

fragility

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