gracile

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæsaɪl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-sɪl/
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• General-American: /ˈɡɹæˌsaɪl/
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• General-American: /ˈɡɹæsəl/
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• General-American: /ˈɡɹeɪˌsaɪl/
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• rhymes with (General American) -æsəl
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• CMU ARPABET: G R AE1 S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French gracil, gracile (“slender, thin”) (modern French gracile (“gracile”)), or directly from its etymon Latin gracilis (“slender, slim, thin; lean, meagre, scanty; simple, unadorned”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin; to wane”). The sense “graceful or gracefully slender” was apparently influenced by the non-cognate word grace. The English word is cognate with Italian gracile (“delicate, frail; slender, thin”), Portuguese grácil, Spanish grácil (“graceful; delicate; slender”), and a doublet of gracilis.

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: строен (stroen) — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Bulgarian: тънък (tǎnǎk) — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Italian: gracile — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Italian: delicata — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Italian: minuta — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Latin: gracilis — lean, slender, thin — see also lean, slender, thin
• Russian: стро́йный (strójnyj) — gracefully slender