naviger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.wɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.vi.d͡ʒer]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin nāvis

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Italic *gezō

Latin gerō

Latin -ger

Latin nāviger

From nāvis (“ship”) + -ger (“bearing”).

Adjective

nāviger (feminine nāvigera, neuter nāvigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. ship-bearing, navigable
2. sailing

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nāviger	nāvigera	nāvigerum		nāvigerī	nāvigerae	nāvigera
genitive	nāvigerī	nāvigerae	nāvigerī		nāvigerōrum	nāvigerārum	nāvigerōrum
dative	nāvigerō	nāvigerae	nāvigerō		nāvigerīs
accusative	nāvigerum	nāvigeram	nāvigerum		nāvigerōs	nāvigerās	nāvigera
ablative	nāvigerō	nāvigerā	nāvigerō		nāvigerīs
vocative	nāviger	nāvigera	nāvigerum		nāvigerī	nāvigerae	nāvigera

Descendants

• Italian: navigero
• Portuguese: navígero

Etymology 2

Form of nāvigō.

Verb

nāviger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of nāvigō

References

• “naviger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “naviger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

naviger

1. imperative of navigere