circumnavigator

English

Etymology

circumnavigate +‎ -or

Noun

circumnavigator (plural circumnavigators)

  1. A person who circumnavigates, that is, sails around the world.
    • 1881, Symon's monthly meteorological magazine, page 59:
      If you question a seaman on the subject, whether mere coaster or circumnavigator, he will tell you that in a snow-storm, because of its constant eddyings and gyrations, frequent trimming of sails is more necessary than in any other gale […]

Quotations
  • W. Guthrie (1770). "Magellan's honour of being the first circumnavigator has been disputed in favor of the brave Sir Francis Drake."

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References
  • Charles Augustus Maude Fennell with John Frederick Stanford (1892) The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases‎, University Press, page 248

Latin

Verb

circumnāvigātor

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