navigatio

Latin

Etymology

From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naː.u̯iˈɡaː.ti.oː/, [näːu̯ɪˈɡäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /na.viˈɡat.t͡si.o/, [näviˈɡät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

nāvigātiō f (genitive nāvigātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of sailing or voyaging; voyage, navigation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāvigātiō	nāvigātiōnēs
Genitive	nāvigātiōnis	nāvigātiōnum
Dative	nāvigātiōnī	nāvigātiōnibus
Accusative	nāvigātiōnem	nāvigātiōnēs
Ablative	nāvigātiōne	nāvigātiōnibus
Vocative	nāvigātiō	nāvigātiōnēs

Related terms

• naufragus
• naustibulum
• nauta
• nautālis
• nauticārius
• nauticus
• nāvāculum
• nāvālē
• nāvālis
• nāvia
• nāvicella
• nāvicula
• nāviculāris
• nāviculārius
• nāviculor
• nāvifragus
• nāvigābilis
• nāvigātor
• nāviger
• nāvigiolum
• nāvigium
• nāvigō
• nāvis
• nāvita

Descendants

• Catalan: navegació
• English: navigation
• French: navigation
• Friulian: navigazion
• → German: Navigation
• Italian: navigazione
• Ladin: navigazion
• Piedmontese: navigassion
• → Polish: nawigacja
• Portuguese: navegação
• Romanian: navigație
• → Russian: навигация (navigacija)
• Sicilian: navigazzioni
• Spanish: navegación
• → Swedish: navigation

References

• “navigatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navigatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• navigatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.