nautical

nautical

English

Alternative forms

• naut. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/
• (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑt.ɪ.kəl/

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Adjective

nautical (not generally comparable, comparative more nautical, superlative most nautical)

1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

   nautical charts

   I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.

Derived terms

• nautical chart
• nautical mile
• nautical twilight

 

Translations

relating to ships, shipping, navigation, and seamen

Arabic: بحر‎, ملاحة‎ Bulgarian: морски (bg) (morski), мореплавателен (moreplavatelen) Catalan: nàutic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 海上的 (zh) (hǎishàng de) Dutch: nautisch (nl) Esperanto: naŭtika Finnish: merenkulullinen, meri- (fi), merenkulku- (fi), nauttinen (fi) (rare) French: nautique (fr) Galician: náutico German: nautisch (de) Greek: ναυτικός (el) (naftikós) Ancient: ναυτικός (nautikós) Hebrew: יַמִּי‎ (he) (yamí) Ido: marala (io), navigala (io), marista (io), navana (io), navala (io) Italian: nautico (it) Japanese: 航海の (ja) (kōkai no), 海事の (ja) (kaiji no) Norwegian: Bokmål: nautisk Nynorsk: nautisk Polish: morski (pl), żeglarski (pl) Portuguese: náutico (pt) Russian: морско́й (ru) (morskój), навигацио́нный (ru) (navigaciónnyj), морехо́дный (ru) (morexódnyj) Spanish: náutico (es) Ukrainian: морський (morsʹkyj), мореходний (morexodnyj) Welsh: morwrol (cy)

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