nautical

English

Alternative forms

• naut. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔː.tɪ.kl̩]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔ.ɾɪ.kl̩]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɑ.ɾɪ.kl̩]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnoː.ɾɪ.kl̩]

Adjective

nautical (not generally comparable, comparative more nautical, superlative most nautical)

1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

   nautical charts

   I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.

   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:

     The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]

Derived terms

• nautical chart
• nautical mile
• nautical twilight

Translations

relating to ships, shipping, navigation, and seamen

• Arabic: بحر, ملاحة
• Bulgarian: морски (bg) (morski), мореплавателен (moreplavatelen)
• Catalan: nàutic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海上的 (zh) (hǎishàng de), 航海的 (hánghǎide)

• Danish: nautisk
• Dutch: nautisch (nl)
• Esperanto: naŭtika
• Finnish: merenkulullinen, meri- (fi), merenkulku- (fi), nauttinen (fi) (rare)
• French: nautique (fr)
• Galician: náutico (gl)
• German: nautisch (de)
• Greek: ναυτικός (el) (naftikós)

  Ancient: ναυτικός (nautikós)

• Hebrew: יַמִּי (he) (yamí)
• Ido: marala (io), navigala (io), marista (io), navana (io), navala (io)
• Italian: nautico (it)
• Japanese: 航海の (ja) (kōkai no), 海事の (ja) (kaiji no)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nautisk

  Nynorsk: nautisk

• Polish: morski (pl), żeglarski (pl)
• Portuguese: náutico (pt)
• Punjabi: ਜਹਾਜ਼ੀ (jahāzī)
• Russian: морско́й (ru) (morskój), навигацио́нный (ru) (navigaciónnyj), морехо́дный (ru) (morexódnyj)
• Spanish: náutico (es)
• Swedish: nautisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: морський (morsʹkyj), мореходний (morexodnyj)
• Welsh: morwrol (cy)

Anagrams

• actinula