naufragium
Latin
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Etymology
From navis (“a ship”) + frangō (“I break”).
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
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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be shipwrecked: naufragium facere
- to collect the wreckage: naufragium colligere (Sest. 6. 15)
- to be shipwrecked: naufragium facere