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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹeɪ(ə)lti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-frailty.wav [US] Forms: frailties [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|frelete}} Middle English frelete, {{m|enm|frailte}} frailte, {{der|en|fro|fraileté}} Old French fraileté, {{der|en|la|fragilitās}} Latin fragilitās, {{surf|en|frail|-ty}} By surface analysis, frail + -ty, {{doublet|en|fragility}} Doublet of fragility Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} frailty (countable and uncountable, plural frailties)
  1. (uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: frailness, infirmity Translations (condition of being frail): fragilitat [feminine] (Catalan), křehkost [feminine] (Czech), slabost [feminine] (Czech), zwakheid (Dutch), fragileco (Esperanto), hauraus (Finnish), heiveröisyys (Finnish), fragilité [feminine] (French), Schwäche [feminine] (German), Zerbrechlichkeit [feminine] (German), aibrisce [feminine] (Irish), anbhainne [feminine] (Irish), laige [feminine] (Irish), leochaileacht [feminine] (Irish), neamhsheasmhacht [feminine] (Irish), fragilità [feminine] (Italian), もろさ (morosa) (Japanese), kopītanga (Maori), febilte (Middle English), feblesse (Middle English), feblenesse (Middle English), fragilitat [feminine] (Occitan), درمانسزلق (dermansızlık) (Ottoman Turkish), fragilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), fragilidad [feminine] (Spanish), zaaf (Turkish), düşkünlük (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-frailty-en-noun-l3eBnD61 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ty Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ty: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'condition of being frail': 96 4
  2. A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-frailty-en-noun-nwqQyKBW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: frail

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.