navita

Latin

Etymology

Derived from nāvis (“ship”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.u̯i.ta/, [ˈnäːu̯ɪt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vi.ta/, [ˈnäːvit̪ä]

Noun

nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension

1. (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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāvita	nāvitae
genitive	nāvitae	nāvitārum
dative	nāvitae	nāvitīs
accusative	nāvitam	nāvitās
ablative	nāvitā	nāvitīs
vocative	nāvita	nāvitae

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.