Latin Frangible York Fran Juh Buhl Adjective Readily Broken Breakable

adjective

Readily broken; breakable.

[From Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere (to break). The same Latin root is responsible for breaking in a number of other words, such as chamfer, defray, fraction, refract, infringe, and fracture.]

"Wax discs are frangible: a lost flake is an irretrievable snippet of sonic memory." - Alan Burdick, Now Hear This, Harper's Magazine (New York), Jul 2001.

"I can never read reviews of my own movies. I'm terrified to find out what the barbaric world thinks of my trembly filmic dreams and, by extension, my overly frangible soul." - Guy Maddin, Very Lush and Full of Ostriches, The Village Voice (New York), Aug 7, 2001.