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frangible

Frangible (adj) means Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.

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Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.
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Etymology

From Late Middle English frangible, frangibil, from Middle French frangible, or from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere (from frangō (“to break, shatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + -ibilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon).

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"frangible" (adj) means able to be broken; breakable, fragile.

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