navigium

Latin

Etymology

See nāvis (“ship”) and nāvigō.

Noun

nāvigium n (genitive nāvigiī or nāvigī); second declension

1. vessel, ship, boat

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāvigium	nāvigia
Genitive	nāvigiī nāvigī1	nāvigiōrum
Dative	nāvigiō	nāvigiīs
Accusative	nāvigium	nāvigia
Ablative	nāvigiō	nāvigiīs
Vocative	nāvigium	nāvigia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• nāvigō

Descendants

• English: navy
• French: navire
• Galician: navío
• Italian: navigio, naviglio

• Old French: navie, navoi, navilie, navirie
• Portuguese: navio
• Spanish: navío

References

• “navigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• navigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• navigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • reconnoitring-vessels: navigia speculatoria
    
• “navigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers