navifragus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

nāvĭfrăgus, a, um, adj. [navis-frango],

causing shipwrecks, dangerous (poet.): navifragum Scylaceum, Verg. A. 3, 553: fretum, Ov. M. 14, 6: saxa, Stat. Th. 5, 415; cf. naufragus, I. B.

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