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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *néh₂us}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [naː.wɪˈɡaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [na.viˈɡat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nāvigātiō''' ''f'' (genitive nāvigātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[nāvigō|t=to sail]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) De Vaan lists ⟨nāvigō⟩ under [[nāvis|t=ship]], from [[itc-pro|*nāwi-|alt=*nāw-]] and [[ine-pro|*néh₂us|alt=*neh2-u-|t=ship]], probably “the floating one”; cognate with [[sa|नौ|tr=náu-|t=ship]], [[grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]] and [[sga|nau|alt=náu|t=ship]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in his speech on Pompey's command says that farming is abandoned and the merchants' sailing comes to a stop.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means sailing, voyaging by sea, and it is used in measuring distances by sea, as Pliny the Elder's Thule six days' sail from Britain.^(OLD 2012) It is also a particular voyage, as in Cicero's letter about the course of a friend's voyages, the first sailing of the season, a sea route, and the written record of a voyage, as those of Onesicritus and Nearchus in Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “voyage”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of halted merchant sailing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of distances and voyage records.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|navigation]], through French or directly.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Sailing, [[m|en|navigation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|voyage]]; a sailing, passage; a sea route.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The record of a voyage.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nāvigō]]

+ * [[nāvis]]

+ * [[en|navigation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}