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Latin
Etymology
Derived from nāvis (“ship”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension
- (poetic) sailor
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “navita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “navita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- navita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.