navigator

From Latin nāvigātor.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/

• Audio (US):

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navigator (plural navigators)

1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
2. A sea explorer.
3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
   • 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:

     Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

5. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

• inertial navigator
• navigatrix

• navigate
• navigation

From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix).

nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension

1. a sailor or mariner

Third-declension noun.

• French: navigateur
• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Romanian: navigator
• Spanish: navegador
• Venetan: navigadóre

nāvigātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of nāvigō

• “navigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• navigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• навигатор (navigator) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga +‎ -tor.

navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

   Synonyms: browser, explorator

• “navigator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025