navita

Derived from nāvis (“ship”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.wɪ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.vi.t̪a]

nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension

1. (poetic) sailor
   • Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4

     Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
     Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

     The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
     the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

First-declension noun.

• (sailor): nauta

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