English
frailness
From frail + -ness.
Formed from frail + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- ‘to break’
Proto-Italic *fragelis
Latin fragilis ‘fragile, brittle, easily broken, breakable’
Old French fraile ‘fragile’
Middle English frele
English frail
Today it means
noun The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / frailness