The corpus record — Latin

nauclerus

nauclerus · m

a shipowner, a ship-master, skipper

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Where it lives

Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k

What it meant

nauclērus — Lewis & Short

nauclērus, i, m., = nau/klhros,

I a shipowner, a ship-master, skipper (syn.: navarchus, gubernator), Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 17; Tert. adv. Marc. 5, 1; Vulg. Act. 27, 11; Cod. Th. 7, 16, 3; Firm. Math. 8, 20 fin.—

II Nauclērus, the title of a comedy of Cæcilius, Non. 12, 32; 126, 26; 506, 5; Isid. Orig. 19, 1.

In the wild

nauclerus Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 12
nauclerus Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.6
nauclerus Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.3
nauclerus Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.3
nauclerus Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 30

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.