naufrage
English edit
Etymology edit
From French, from Latin naufragium; nāvis + frangere.
Noun edit
naufrage
- (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
- May 7 1617, Francis Bacon, speech on taking his place in Chancery
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin naufragium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naufrage m (plural naufrages)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
naufrage
- inflection of naufrager:
Further reading edit
- “naufrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Adjective edit
naufrage