英文词源
- frail (adj.)
- mid-14c., "morally weak," from Old French fraile, frele "weak, frail, sickly, infirm" (12c., Modern French frêle), from Latin fragilis "easily broken" (see fragility). It is the Frenchified form of fragile. Sense of "easily destroyed, liable to break" in English is from late 14c. The U.S. slang noun meaning "a woman" is attested from 1908; perhaps with awareness of Shakespeare's "Frailty, thy name is woman."
中文词源
frail：易碎的
缩写自拉丁语fragilis, 易碎的，词源同fragile.
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：frail 词源，frail 含义。
frail：虚弱的，脆弱的
来源于拉丁语中frangere(打破,打碎)的派生词fragilis(易碎的),经由古法语frale或frele进入英语为frail。
与词根-frag-(打破,打碎)同源
frail：脆弱的
单词frail和fragile（易碎的）是一对“同源对似词”（etymological doublets），即终极词源相同，但由于演变路径不同，而形、音、义上有所不同的词。fragile直接来自拉丁词或经法语进入英语，而frail则经古法语进入。前面发过的count和compute、sure和secure都属于“同源对似词”范畴。