praenavigo Latin · revision 36750

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praenāvigō''' (present infinitive praenāvigāre, perfect active praenāvigāvī, supine praenāvigātum); first conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|nāvigō|t2=to sail]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists [[m|la|nāvigō]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|nāvis|t=ship]], which he traces to [[ine-pro|*neh₂-u-|t=ship]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL's first examples are from Valerius Maximus, of Lentulus sailing along a coast (''litus praenavigans''), and in Seneca and Pomponius Mela.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ With an object it means to sail past or along: Seneca writes that a villa, ignored while it stood, became famous once Gaius Caesar pulled it down;^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Mela lists the places that those sailing towards Sunium pass,^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) and Pliny the Elder reports two towns that are passed on the Tigris.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Used absolutely it means to sail by: Seneca imagines a man at Baiae counting the adulteresses sailing past,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny says that Onesicritus and Nearchus sailed for twenty days along the coast of the Fish-eaters.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) The participle could stand as a noun for those sailing past.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Seneca also used it figuratively of life: ''praenavigavimus, Lucili, vitam'' (“we have sailed past life, Lucilius”), comparing the stages of life to coasts that drop out of sight.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of sailing past a villa and, figuratively, of life.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Pomponius Mela uses it of coasting past places on the way to Sunium.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of sailing along a coast and past towns.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|sail]] past or along; to [[m|en|coast]] along.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To sail by.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To pass quickly through (life).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praenāvigātiō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A Greek–Latin glossary renders it with [[grc|παραπλέω|tr=parapléō|t=to sail by]].^(CGL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}