Where does “frailty” come from?
Frailty comes from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitas, from Proto-Italic fragelitāts, denoting the quality of being easily broken or damaged.
frailty (English): The condition quality of being frail, physically,...
Definitions
- The condition quality of being frail, physically,...
Ancestry of “frailty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | frelete | Frailty, particularly moral weakness |
| 2 | Old French | fraileté | — |
| 3 | Latin | fragilitas | brittleness, fragility; weakness, frailness |
| 4 | Latin | -tās | ty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |