GC: n

S: CNN – http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/05/europe/mediterranean-migrants-shipwreck/ (last access: 9 October 2015); Shipwreck – http://shipwreck.net/pr195.php (last access: 31 January 2014).

N: 1. mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant “things cast up from a shipwreck” (c. 1100). The earlier word for “shipwreck” in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, “‘ship-break,'” from a North Sea Germanic word; compare West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Dutch schipbroke, German Schiffbruch, Old English scipgebroc. Old English scipbryce meant “right to claim goods from a wrecked ship.”

2. In the fields of Safety (Water Transport); Shipbuilding, and Transportation Insurance: shipwreck, wreck.

• The destruction or loss of a ship by its being sunk or broken up by the violence of the sea, or by its striking or stranding upon a rock or shoal.
• French and Spanish equivalents: naufrage (FR), naufragio (ES).

3. In the fields of Shipbuilding; Safety (Water Transport), and Archaeology: shipwreck, wreck, wreckage.

• The fragments or remains of a shattered or wrecked vessel.
• French and Spanish equivalents: épave (FR), pecio (ES).

4. Cultural Interrelation: One of the world’s most famous shipwreck: RMS Titanic [April 14, 1912, 23:40 – April 15, 02:20 (02:38–05:18 GMT)].

S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shipwreck (last access: 9 October 2015). 2 & 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=shipwreck&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 2 August 2024). 4. BBC – https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602182 (last access: 2 August 2024).

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CR: wreck