navette

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See also: navetté

English

Etymology

French

Pronunciation

Noun

navette (plural navettes)

  1. A shuttle bus in France.
    • 2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris, page 45:
      To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2) []
  2. A kind of grape that grows in summer.
    • 1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants:
      The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.
  3. The informal vans operating in Brussels.
    • 2020, Wojciech Kębłowski, Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels:
      To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.

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French

Etymology

From Latin nāvis (ship) +‎ -ette (referring to the boat-like shape of a shuttle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.vɛt/
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Noun

navette f (plural navettes)

  1. shuttle (in weaving)
  2. shuttle (land vehicle)
  3. shuttle (space vehicle)
  4. incense boat
  5. a kind of biscuit from Marseille, flavoured with orange blossom

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Portuguese: naveta
  • Romanian: navetă

Verb

navette

  1. inflection of navetter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian

Noun

navette f

  1. plural of navetta

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