gracilis

== English == === Etymology === From Latin gracilis (“slender”). Doublet of gracile. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡras.ɪ.lɪs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡræs.ə.lɪs/ === Noun === gracilis (plural graciles) (anatomy, anatomy) A slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh. ==== Translations ==== === References === “gracilis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “gracilis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. === Anagrams === Gisclair == Latin == === Etymology === From an Old Latin verb *graceō or *craceō (“to be meager, slim”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin, to wane”), related to Sanskrit कृश (kṛśa, “thin, lean”), Lithuanian karštu (“to age”), and Avestan 𐬐𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (kərəsa, “meager, lean”). Also compare cracens (“slender”) and Proto-Germanic *hurhaz (“lean”) whence Icelandic hor (“emaciation”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡra.kɪ.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡraː.t͡ʃi.lis] === Adjective === gracilis (neuter gracile, comparative gracilior, superlative gracillimus, adverb graciliter); third-declension two-termination adjective slender, slim, thin meager, scanty, lean (of style) unadorned, simple ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (slender): gracilēns, gracilentus, cracens ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “gracilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gracilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "gracilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “gracilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. gracilis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “gracilis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “gracilis”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 285 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gracĭlis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 201