navigo Latin · revision 30827

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *neh₂-u-, ine-pro *h₂eǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnaː.wɪ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnaː.vi.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nāvigō''' (present infinitive nāvigāre, perfect active nāvigāvī, supine nāvigātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|nāvis|t=ship]] and [[m|la|agō|t=to drive]]: “to drive a ship”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨nāvis⟩ to [[itc-pro|*nau-]] and [[ine-pro|*neh₂-u-|t=ship]], cognate with [[grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]] and [[sa|नौ|tr=náu-|t=ship]], and ⟨agō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-e/o-|t=to drive, lead]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Bacchides'': ''nē nāvigārem tandem hōc aetātis senex'', “so that I, an old man at my age, should not go to sea”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to go by ship, voyage or sail, and of things to go by sea: Cicero says the whole weight of the war ''nāvigāvit'' under Pompey's command with astonishing speed.^(OLD 2012) Of a ship it is to sail, and Pliny uses it of the nautilus.^(OLD 2012) With an accusative it is to sail across, as Virgil's hostile people sailing the Tyrrhenian sea, and in the jurists to sail a ship.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “sail, navigate”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''navigate'' (1580s) is a back-formation from ''navigation'' or comes from the participle ''nāvigātus''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an old man going to sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a war carried by sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, transitive, of sailing a sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English [[m|en|navigate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|sail]], go by sea, [[m|en|voyage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(of a ship)'' To sail.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To sail across, [[m|en|navigate]]; to sail (a ship).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nāvis]]

+ * [[agō]]

+ * [[nauta]]

+ * [[en|navigate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}