navita
Latin
Etymology
Derived from nāvis (“ship”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnaː.u̯i.ta/, [ˈnäːu̯ɪt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈna.vi.ta/, [ˈnäːvit̪ä]
Noun
nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension
- (poetic) sailor
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
Declension
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Synonyms
- (sailor): nauta
Related terms
- nāvia
- nāvicella
- nāvicula
- nāviculāris
- nāviculārius
- nāviculor
- nāvifragus
- nāvigābilis
- nāvigātiō
- nāvigātor
- nāviger
- nāvigium
- nāvigō
- nāvis
- nāvis longa
References
- “navita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “navita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- navita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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