naufragar

Borrowed from Latin naufragāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [nəw.fɾəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [naw.fɾaˈɣaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

naufragar (first-person singular present naufrago, first-person singular preterite naufraguí, past participle naufragat)

1. to be shipwrecked
2. to fail

   Synonyms: fracassar, arruïnar-se

• nau
• nàufrag
• naufragi

Learned borrowing from Latin naufragāre.

naufragar (first-person singular present naufrago, first-person singular preterite naufraguei, past participle naufragado)

1. (nautical) to founder; to sink
2. (nautical) to be shipwrecked

• “naufragar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin naufragāre.

• IPA^(key): /naufɾaˈɡaɾ/ [nau̯.fɾaˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: nau‧fra‧gar

naufragar (first-person singular present naufrago, first-person singular preterite naufragué, past participle naufragado)

1. to be shipwrecked
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 62:

     Esta armada del Obispo de Placencia, don Gutierre Vargas de Carvajal, fué una expedición de cuatro navíos que naufragó en el Estrecho de Magallanes, en 1540, perdiéndose dos de las naves, una por haberse varado y otra por haber sido arrastrada por las corrientes.

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2. to fail, founder
3. fall, go down (to be defeated)

• “naufragar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024