navigo

See also: navigò and nāvīgo

Italian

Verb

navigo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of navigare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

nāvis (ship) +‎ -igō

Pronunciation

Verb

nāvigō (present infinitive nāvigāre, perfect active nāvigāvī, supine nāvigātum); first conjugation

  1. to sail, navigate, seafare, embark
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.237:
      Nāviget! Haec summa est; hic nostrī nūntius estō.”
      [Jupiter sends Mercury to tell Aeneas to leave Carthage:] “Let him set sail! This is the sum [of it]; let this be our message.”
      (nostri: the “majestic plural” or “royal we”)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: navigà
      • Gallurese: navigà, naicà
    • Italian: navigare
      • Friulian: navigâ
      • Romanian: naviga
    • Sassarese: nabiggà, navigà, naiggà
    • Sicilian: navigari
    • Venetan: navegar
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: navegâ
    • Lombard: navigà
    • Piedmontese: navé
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Vulgar Latin: *nāvizāre (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

References

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