The corpus record — Latin

fragilitas

fragilitas · f

brittleness

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Where it lives

Diadumenus Antoninus 1 · 5.99/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Suasoriae 2 · 1.95/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Letters 2 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

frăgĭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

frăgĭlĭtas, ātis, f.fragilis,

I brittleness, fragility.

I Lit.: tus probatur candore, amplitudine, fragilitate, Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65: tenuiora ferramenta oleo restingui mos est, ne aqua in fragilitatem durentur, id. 34, 14, 41, § 146.—

II Transf. (acc. to fragilis, II.), weakness, frailness, frailty: humani generis imbecillitatem fragilitatemque extimescere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 3: mortalitatis, Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 2: naturae communis, Auct. Or. pro Marcello, 7, 22: fidei humanae, App. M. 9, p. 225.

In the wild

fragilitatis Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.6
fragilitas Seneca, De Beneficiis 7.9.3
fragilitatis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.12.8
fragilitas Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae 10.3.4
fragilitatem Cicero, Pro M. Marcello 22
fragilitas Pliny the Younger, Letters 4.24.2

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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