navigator
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin nāvigātor.[1] By surface analysis, navigate + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]navigator (plural navigators)
- A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
- 2024 January 24, Tami Luhby, “Obamacare sign-ups hit record 21.3 million as Biden pushes his efforts to lower health care costs”, in CNN[1]:
- The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy.
At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.
- A sea explorer.
- 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times[2], archived from the original on 8 June 2021:
- He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
- A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
- (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
- 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:
- Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]
- (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sea explorer
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References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “navigator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch navigator, from Latin nāvigātor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /naviˈɡator/ [na.fiˈɡa.t̪ɔr]
- Rhymes: -ator
- Syllabification: na‧vi‧ga‧tor
Noun
[edit]navigator (plural navigator-navigator or para navigator)
- navigator (officer who navigates)
- Synonyms: mualim, pemandu, penunjuk jalan
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “navigator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Etymology tree
From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) + -tor (agent noun suffix).
Noun
[edit]nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nāvigātor | nāvigātōrēs |
| genitive | nāvigātōris | nāvigātōrum |
| dative | nāvigātōrī | nāvigātōribus |
| accusative | nāvigātōrem | nāvigātōrēs |
| ablative | nāvigātōre | nāvigātōribus |
| vocative | nāvigātor | nāvigātōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]- French: navigateur
- Italian: navigatore
- Portuguese: navegador
- Romanian: navigator
- Spanish: navegador
- Venetan: navigadóre
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]nāvigātor
References
[edit]- “navigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “navigator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- навигатор (navigator) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga + -tor.
Noun
[edit]navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)
- navigator
- (computing) browser
- Synonyms: browser, explorator
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | navigator | navigatorul | navigatori | navigatorii |
| genitive-dative | navigator | navigatorului | navigatori | navigatorilor |
| vocative | navigatorule | navigatorilor | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “navigator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
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