nauticus Latin · revision 33560

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc ναυτικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnau̯.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnaːu̯.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nauticus''' (feminine nautica, neuter nauticum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ναυτικός|tr=nautikós|t=of ships, naval]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|ναύτης|tr=naútēs|t=sailor]], from [[m|grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]].^(Etymonline) The TLL allows that it may instead be formed from the borrowed [[m|la|nauta|t=sailor]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of spoils taken from ships, ''exuviis nauticis'', and remarks that ''inhibere'' is wholly a sailors' word.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means belonging to ships, sailors or navigation:^(OLD 2012) Caesar has knowledge of nautical matters, Virgil the shout of sailors, and Pliny the Elder ship's bread.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the jurist Scaevola money lent on a ship's cargo is ''pecunia nautica''.^(OLD 2012) Of people it is seafaring, or of troops carried on board.^(OLD 2012) As a noun ''nauticī'' are sailors, in Livy and Pliny the Elder,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Medieval Latin ''nauticus'' is one of a ship's crew.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of spoils from ships and of a sailors' word.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of knowledge of seamanship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1550s – English forms [[m|en|nautical]] from ''nautic'', from French ''nautique'' and this Latin word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of ships or sailors, [[m|en|nautical]], [[m|en|naval]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of money: lent on a ship's cargo.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|seafaring|alt=Seafaring]]; of troops, carried on board ship.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(plural)'' [[m|en|sailor|alt=Sailors]], seamen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A member of a ship's [[m|en|crew]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nauticī]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nauta]]

+ * [[nāvis]]

+ * [[en|nautical]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}