circumnavigator

English

Etymology

From circumnavigate +‎ -or.

Noun

circumnavigator (plural circumnavigators)

1. A person who circumnavigates, that is, sails around the world.
   • 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine, page 59:

     If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]

Quotations

• W. Guthrie (1770). "Magellan's honour of being the first circumnavigator has been disputed in favor of the brave Sir Francis Drake."

Hypernyms

• navigator

Translations

a person who sails around the world

• French: circumnavigateur (fr) m, circumnavigatrice (fr) f
• German: Weltumsegler m
• Italian: circumnavigatore m, circumnavigatrice f
• Scottish Gaelic: iom-sheòladair m

References

• Charles Augustus Maude Fennell with John Frederick Stanford (1892) The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases‎^[1], University Press, page 248

Latin

Verb

circumnāvigātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of circumnāvigō