navigium

Latin

Etymology

From nāvigō (to sail) + -ium, from nāvis (ship).

Noun

nāvigium n (genitive nāvigiī or nāvigī); second declension

  1. vessel, ship, boat

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nāvigium nāvigia
Genitive nāvigiī
nāvigī1
nāvigiōrum
Dative nāvigiō nāvigiīs
Accusative nāvigium nāvigia
Ablative nāvigiō nāvigiīs
Vocative nāvigium nāvigia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Inherited:
    • > Old French: navoi (inherited)
    • > Old Galician-Portuguese: navio (inherited)
      • > Galician: navío (inherited)
      • > Portuguese: navio (inherited)
    • > Old Occitan: naveg, navegi, navigi, navei (inherited)
      • > Occitan: naviri (inherited)
    • > Spanish: navío (inherited)
  • Borrowings:
  • Derived from nāvigia:
    • > Old French: navie (inherited)
      • Anglo-Norman:
        • Middle English: nave, navye
          • > English: navy (inherited)
  • Derived from altered Late Vulgar Latin *nāvilium:
    • > Catalan: navili (inherited)
    • > Italian: naviglio (inherited)
    • > Old French: navirie, navilie (inherited)
      • > Middle French: navire (inherited)
    • > Old Occitan: naveli, navili (inherited)

References

  • navigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • navigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • navigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • navigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • reconnoitring-vessels: navigia speculatoria
  • navigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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