navita

Latin

Etymology

Derived from nāvis (“ship”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.wi.ta/, [ˈnaː.wɪ.ta]

Noun

nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension

1. (poetic) sailor
   • Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

     Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
     Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

     The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
     the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	nāvita	nāvitae
genitive	nāvitae	nāvitārum
dative	nāvitae	nāvitīs
accusative	nāvitam	nāvitās
ablative	nāvitā	nāvitīs
vocative	nāvita	nāvitae

Synonyms

• (sailor): nauta

Related terms

• nāvia
• nāvicella
• nāvicula
• nāviculāris
• nāviculārius

• nāviculor
• nāvifragus
• nāvigābilis
• nāvigātiō
• nāvigātor

• nāviger
• nāvigium
• nāvigō
• nāvis
• nāvis longa

References

• navita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• navita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “navita” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)