navigator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
- A sea explorer.
- 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 (2001–2024) “navigator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) + -tor (agent noun suffix).
Noun
[edit]nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | 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
- Venetian: 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]Declension of navigator
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) navigator | navigatorul | (niște) navigatori | navigatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) navigator | navigatorului | (unor) navigatori | navigatorilor |
vocative | navigatorule | navigatorilor |
Further reading
[edit]- navigator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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