gracilis

From Latin gracilis (“slender”). Doublet of gracile.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡras.ɪ.lɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡræs.ə.lɪs/

gracilis (plural graciles)

1. (anatomy) A slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh.

• “gracilis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gracilis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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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 (kər^əsa, “meager, lean”).

Also compare cracens (“slender”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.ki.lis/, [ˈɡräkɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡra.t͡ʃi.lis/, [ˈɡräːt͡ʃilis]

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gracilis (neuter gracile, comparative gracilior, superlative gracillimus, adverb graciliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. slender, slim, thin
2. meager, scanty, lean
3. (of style) unadorned, simple

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• (slender): gracilēns, gracilentus, cracens

• “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’s 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, 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 (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 201