naufrage

See also: naufragé and naûfrage

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin naufragium; nāvis + frangere.

Noun

naufrage

1. (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin
   • May 7 1617, Francis Bacon, speech on taking his place in Chancery

     the opinion , not to relieve any case after judginent , would be a guilty opinion ; guilty of the ruin , and naufrage , and perishing of infinite subjects

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “naufrage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Naufrage

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin naufragium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.fʁaʒ/

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Noun

naufrage m (plural naufrages)

1. shipwreck

Derived terms

• faire naufrage
• naufragé
• naufrager

Verb

naufrage

1. inflection of naufrager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Latin

Adjective

naufrage

1. vocative masculine singular of naufragus