naufrage

See also: naufragé and naûfrage

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin naufragium; navis + frangere.

Noun

naufrage

1. (obsolete) shipwreck; ruin

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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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

• naufragé
• naufrager

Verb

naufrage

1. first-person singular present indicative of naufrager
2. third-person singular present indicative of naufrager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of naufrager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of naufrager
5. second-person singular imperative of naufrager

Further reading

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

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) naufrage

1. vocative masculine singular of naufragus