naufragium

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Latin

Naufragium

Etymology

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ frangō (“to break”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

naufragium n (genitive naufragiī or naufragī); second declension

  1. shipwreck
  2. (poetic) storm

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative naufragium naufragia
Genitive naufragiī
naufragī1 		naufragiōrum
Dative naufragiō naufragiīs
Accusative naufragium naufragia
Ablative naufragiō naufragiīs
Vocative naufragium naufragia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • “naufragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “naufragium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • naufragium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • naufragium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be shipwrecked: naufragium facere
    • to collect the wreckage: naufragium colligere (Sest. 6. 15)
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