gracile
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French gracil, gracile (“slender, thin”) (modern French gracile (“gracile”)), or directly from its etymon Latin gracilis (“slender, slim, thin; lean, meagre, scanty; simple, unadorned”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerḱ- (“to become thin; to wane”). The sense “graceful or gracefully slender” was apparently influenced by the non-cognate word grace. The English word is cognate with Italian gracile (“delicate, frail; slender, thin”), Portuguese grácil, Spanish grácil (“graceful; delicate; slender”), and a doublet of gracilis.
- borrowed from gracil
Definitions
Lean, slender, thin.
- Maxillary palpi shorter than the antennæ, the terminal joint small, gracile, subulated; [...]
- The finish, the extreme delicacy of his [William Blake's] pencil, in his light gracile forms, marvellouslfy contrast with the ideal figures of his mystic allegories; sometimes playful, as the loveliness of the arabesques of Raffaelle.
Of an animal or skeletal element
Of an animal or skeletal element: having a slender frame.
Graceful or gracefully slender.
- [A] band of dancers run upon the stage and perform a sylvan dance with gracile wavings of branches or the clinking of cymbals.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA