navigator

See also: navigátor and Navigator

English

Etymology

From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

navigator (plural navigators)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. (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 […]

5. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

Derived terms

• astronavigator
• inertial navigator
• nagavator
• navigatress
• navigatrix

Related terms

• navigate
• navigation

Translations

officer who navigates

• Azerbaijani: naviqator
• Belarusian: шту́рман m (štúrman)
• Bulgarian: навига́тор (bg) m (navigátor), щу́рман (bg) m (štúrman), лоцман (bg) m (locman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 導航員 / 导航员 (zh) (dǎohángyuán)

• Czech: navigátor (cs) m
• Esperanto: navigisto
• Finnish: navigoija (fi)
• French: navigateur (fr) m
• German: Navigator (de) m
• Greek: πλοηγός (el) m (ploïgós)
• Hebrew: נַוָּט \ נווט (he) m (navvát)
• Interlingua: navigator
• Italian: navigante (it) m, marinaio (it) m, marittimo (it) m, navigatore (it) m
• Macedonian: ко́рмилар m (kórmilar), море́пловец m (moréplovec), навига́тор m (navigátor)
• Maori: kaiwhakatere
• Polish: nawigator (pl) m
• Portuguese: navegante (pt), navegador (pt) m
• Romanian: navigator (ro) m, navigatoare (ro) f, marinar (ro) m
• Russian: шту́рман (ru) m (štúrman), навига́тор (ru) m (navigátor)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морепло́вац m

  Roman: moreplóvac (sh) m

• Spanish: navegante (es) m
• Swedish: navigatör (sv) c
• Ukrainian: шту́рман m (štúrman)

sea explorer

• Belarusian: марапла́вец m (maraplávjec), марапла́ўца m (marapláwca), марапла́ўнiк m (marapláwnik), марапла́віца f (maraplávica)
• Bulgarian: мореплава́тел (bg) m (moreplavátel), мореплава́телка f (moreplavátelka)
• Czech: mořeplavec (cs) m
• Finnish: merenkulkija (fi)
• French: navigateur (fr) m
• German: Seefahrer (de) m
• Greek: θαλασσοπόρος (el) m (thalassopóros)
• Italian: navigatore (it) m
• Macedonian: море́пловец m (moréplovec)
• Maori: kaumoana
• Portuguese: navegante (pt), navegador (pt) m
• Romanian: navigator (ro) m, navigatoare (ro) f
• Russian: морепла́ватель (ru) m (moreplávatelʹ), морепла́вательница (ru) f (moreplávatelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морепло́вац m

  Roman: moreplóvac (sh) m

• Slovak: moreplavec m
• Swedish: sjöfarare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: морепла́вець (uk) m (moreplávecʹ), морепла́виця f (moreplávycja)

Latin

Etymology 1

From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix).

Noun

nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension

1. a sailor or mariner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs
genitive	nāvigātōris	nāvigātōrum
dative	nāvigātōrī	nāvigātōribus
accusative	nāvigātōrem	nāvigātōrēs
ablative	nāvigātōre	nāvigātōribus
vocative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs

Descendants

• French: navigateur
• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Romanian: navigator
• Spanish: navegador
• Venetan: navigadóre

Etymology 2

Verb

nāvigātor

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

References

• “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

Alternative forms

• навигатор (navigator) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga +‎ -tor.

Noun

navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

   Synonyms: browser, explorator

Declension

Declension of navigator

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	navigator	navigatorul		navigatori	navigatorii
genitive-dative	navigator	navigatorului		navigatori	navigatorilor
vocative	navigatorule			navigatorilor

Further reading

• “navigator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025