naufragium

Latin

Naufragium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nau̯ˈfra.ɡi.um/, [näu̯ˈfräɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nau̯ˈfra.d͡ʒi.um/, [näu̯ˈfräːd͡ʒium]

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

• Catalan: naufragi
• → English: naufrageous
• → English: naufragous
• French: naufrage
• Galician: naufraxio
• Italian: naufragio
• → Middle English: naufragie
• Norman: naûfrage
• Occitan: naufragi
• Portuguese: naufrágio
• Romanian: naufragiu
• Spanish: naufragio

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be shipwrecked: naufragium facere
    
  • to collect the wreckage: naufragium colligere (Sest. 6. 15)