circumnavigo
See also: circumnavigò
Italian
Verb
circumnavigo
Latin
Etymology
From circum- (“about, around; through”) + nāvigō (“sail, navigate”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kir.kumˈnaː.u̯i.ɡoː/, [kɪrkʊmˈnäːu̯ɪɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃir.kumˈna.vi.ɡo/, [t͡ʃirkumˈnäːviɡo]
Verb
circumnāvigō (present infinitive circumnāvigāre, perfect active circumnāvigāvī, supine circumnāvigātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) I sail round or around something, circumnavigate.
Conjugation
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: circumnavegar
- English: circumnavigate
- French: circumnaviguer
- Italian: circumnavigare
- Portuguese: circum-navegar
- Romanian: circumnaviga
- Spanish: circunnavegar
References
- “circumnavigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- circumnavigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.