fraile

fraile

1. Obsolete spelling of frail

• A-lifer, failer, farlie, ferial

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

fraile (plural fraili)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of frale

• Falier, ferali, filare, filerà, refila

From Latin fragilis. Compare the borrowed term fragile.

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

• → English: frail
• French: frêle

Borrowed from Old Occitan fraire, from Latin frater.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾaile/ [ˈfɾai̯.le]
• Rhymes: -aile
• Syllabification: frai‧le

fraile m (plural frailes)

1. friar

   Synonym: fray

• “fraile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014