friable

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) friābilis, from (deprecated template usage) friō.

• enPR: frī'ə-bəl, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪəbl̩/
• Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "aɪəbəl" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

friable

1. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
   • 1977: Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago. — Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve
2. (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "of soil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Loose and large-grained in consistency.

• (easily broken into small fragments): crumbly

• friableness
• friably
• friability

• brittle

• “friable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “friable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) friābilis, from (deprecated template usage) friō.

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /fʁi.jabl/, Template:X-SAMPA
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Homophone: friables
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: fri‧able

Template:fr-adj-mf

1. crumbly
2. crummy, pitiful

• friabilité

• “friable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.