Capable of breaking or being broken; fragile or easily fractured.
From the Latin frangere (to break), with the suffix '-ent' indicating a quality or state. This technical or archaic term describes the property of brittleness.
The root 'frangent' literally means 'breaking' in Latin—it's the same root in 'fragile,' 'frail,' and 'infringe,' showing how one ancient word for 'break' scattered across English semantics.
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