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- Latin · derived fromfriābilis“friable”
- French · borrowed fromfriable
- English todayfriable
Borrowed from French friable, from Latin friābilis (“friable”), from friō (“to crumble”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
friable
Today it means: Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder. Full definition →
French friable ← Latin friābilis