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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ναύκληρος (naúklēros). Compare Arabic نَاخُوذَاة (nāḵūḏāh) of the same idea.
Noun
nauclērus m (genitive nauclērī); second declension
- shipmaster, shipowner, skipper
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “nauclerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nauclerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.