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physically delicate

  • 1 fisicamente

    1 ( secondo le leggi della fisica): un fenomeno fisicamente inspiegabile, a phenomenon with no explanation in physics (o with no natural explanation)
    2 ( in relazione al corpo umano) physically: un uomo fisicamente fragile, a physically delicate (o frail) man.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > fisicamente

  • 2 fragilis

    frăgĭlis, e, adj. [id.], easily broken, brittle, fragile (class.; esp. freq. in the transf. signif.; cf.: caducus, fluxus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    cadi,

    Ov. M. 12, 243:

    coryli (with tiliae molles),

    id. ib. 10, 93:

    rami,

    Verg. E. 8, 40:

    myrtus,

    Hor. C. 3, 23, 16:

    ratis,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 10; cf.

    phaselus,

    id. ib. 3, 2, 28:

    aes malleis,

    Plin. 34, 8, 20, § 94; cf.:

    saccharon dentibus,

    id. 12, 8, 17, § 32:

    crystalli centrum,

    id. 37, 2, 10, § 28:

    caput ictibus parvis,

    Gell. 6, 1, 11:

    tenuior fragiliorque penna scarabaeorum,

    Plin. 11, 28, 34, § 97:

    ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 347.— Poet.:

    aquae,

    i. e. ice, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 26:

    fragiles sonitus chartarum,

    i. e. crackling, Lucr. 6, 112:

    lauri,

    Verg. E. 8, 82:

    pollicibus fragiles increpuere manus,

    Prop. 4 (5), 7, 12; cf. fragor.—
    II.
    Transf., in gen., weak, perishable, frail (physically or mentally):

    fragile corpus animus sempiternus movet,

    Cic. Rep. 6, 24 fin.;

    in fragili corpore odiosa omnis offensio est,

    id. Sen. 18, 65; cf.:

    (corpora) fragili natura praedita,

    Lucr. 1, 581; and absol.:

    fragili quaerens illidere dentem, Offendet solido,

    Hor. S. 2, 1, 77: fragilissimus alvus, Att. ap. Non. 193, 26.—Of an effeminate man: Julius et fragilis Pediatia (sarcastically in the fem. gen. instead of Pediatius), qs. the delicate Miss Pediatius, Hor. S. 1, 8, 39:

    quis enim confidit, sibi semper id stabile et firmum permansurum, quod fragile et caducum sit?

    Cic. Fin. 2, 27, 86:

    res humanae fragiles caducaeque sunt,

    id. Lael. 27, 102; id. Leg. 1, 8, 24; cf.:

    divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,

    Sall. C. 1, 4:

    fortuna populi,

    Cic. Rep. 2, 28 fin.:

    nec aliud est aeque fragile in homine (quam memoria),

    Plin. 7, 24, 24, § 90:

    nulli vita fragilior (quam homini),

    id. 7 praef. § 5; cf.:

    (hominum) aevum omne et breve et fragile est,

    Plin. Pan. 78, 2:

    haud aevi fragilis sonipes,

    Sil. 3, 386: anni fragiles et inertior aetas, the frail years (of age), Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 3.— Adv. does not occur.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > fragilis

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