navigio

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin nāvigium, derived from nāvigō (“I sail, navigate, seafare”), derived from nāvis (“ship, boat”). Doublet of naviglio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈvi.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -idʒo
• Hyphenation: na‧vì‧gio

Noun

navigio m (plural navigi) (archaic)

1. (also figuratively) ship, vessel
   • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 10–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Voialtri pochi che drizzaste il collo
     per tempo al pan de li angeli, del quale
     vivesi qui ma non sen vien satollo,
     metter potete ben per l’alto sale
     vostro navigio, servando mio solco
     dinanzi a l’acqua che ritorna equale.

     You few, who raised your heads early to the bread of angels—on which one lives, here, but of which never grows sated—you can well put your ship in the open sea, saving my wake in front of the water that returns level.

2. fleet

Related terms

• nave
• navigare
• naviglio

 

Further reading

• navigio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

nāvigiō

1. dative/ablative singular of nāvigium