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Where does “unfragile” come from?

unfragile (English) comes from English fragile, from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, from Proto-Italic fragelis.

unfragile (English): Not fragile

Definitions

  1. Not fragile

Ancestry of “unfragile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfragileEasily broken or destroyed, and thus often of...
2Middle Frenchfragile—
3Latinfragilisfragile, brittle, easily broken, breakable; weak,...
4Proto-Italicfragelis—
Every word from Proto-Italic fragelis →