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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːtɪkl̩/

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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

Translations

relating to ships, shipping, navigation, and seamen

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

  Mandarin: 海上的 (zh) (hǎishàng de)

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

  Ancient: ναυτικός (nautikós)

• Hebrew: ימי‎ (he)
• Ido: marala (io), navigala (io), marista (io), navana (io), navala (io)

• Italian: nautico (it)
• Japanese: 航海の (ja) (kōkai no), 海事の (kaiji no)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nautisk

  Nynorsk: nautisk

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

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