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fragile (adj.)
1510s, "liable to sin, morally weak;" c.1600, "liable to break;" a back-formation from
fragility
, or else from Middle French
fragile
(14c.), from Latin
fragilis
(see
fragility
). Transferred sense of "frail" (of persons) is from 1858.