The corpus record — Latin

naufragus

naufragus · adj

that suffers shipwreck, shipwrecked, wrecked

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Where it lives

Excerpta Controversiae 11 · 5.13/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
De Fato 2 · 4.04/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Ex Ponto 6 · 2.89/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Beneficiis 9 · 1.98/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

naufrăgus — Lewis & Short

naufrăgus, a, um, adj.navis-frango,

I that suffers shipwreck, shipwrecked, wrecked.

I Lit. (class.): Marium Africa devicta expulsum et naufragum vidit, Cic. Pis. 19, 43: corpora, Verg. G. 3, 542: puppis, Ov. H. 2, 16: mulier, Tac. A. 14, 11.—

(b) Subst.: naufrăgus, i, m., a shipwrecked person: naufragus natans, Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 153: dare naufrago tabulam, Sen. Ben. 3, 9, 2: mersā rate naufragus assem Dum rogat, Juv. 14 301.. —

B Poet., transf., that causes shipwreck, shipwrecking: mare, Hor. C. 1, 16, 10: unda, Tib. 2, 4, 10: monstra, Ov. F. 4, 500: tempestas, Val. Fl. 1, 584: Syrtis, Sil. 17, 635; cf. navifragus.—

II Trop., ruined: naufragorum ejecta ac debilitata manus, Cic. Cat. 2, 11, 24: ut aliquis patrimonio naufragus, id. Sull. 14, 41.

In the wild

naufragum Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.5.1
naufragae Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.45.10.5
naufragus Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 5.1
naufragus Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 2.5
naufragorum Cicero, In L. Catilinam 2.24
naufraga Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.412

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