nauclerus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A shipmaster, a shipowner, a skipper
Example Sentences
- "Hence we find that the nauclerus often owns a share (Sacerdoti, p. 40; Scriba, 645; other authorities below)."
- "It was during the thirteenth century that one of the owners (patroni) acting as representative of all of them, was legally recognized as the ship’s master (il patrono). The nauclerus became merely his mate, the later nocchiero."
- "In the former case the nauclerus wrote his receipt, in three copies, to the strategus and to the sitologi. In the latter case there was no personal contacte between the nauclerus and the sitologi. The cybernetes handed out his own receipt, and the receipt of the nauclerus [...]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nauclērus, from Ancient Greek ναύκληρος (naúklēros).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ναύκληρος