navet
See also: nāvēt
Cahuilla
navet
Etymology
From Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?] (compare Classical Nahuatl nohpalli).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɑvɛt/
Noun
návet (plural návtem)
- a kind of prickly pear cactus, perhaps Opuntia engelmannii
- cactus (any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants)
Danish
Noun
navet n
- definite singular of nav
French
FWOTD – 14 January 2019
Etymology
From Old French nef (“turnip”) + -et, from Latin nāpus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.vɛ/
audio (file)
Noun
navet m (plural navets)
- turnip (white root of Brassica rapa)
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:
- Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.
- Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.
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- (colloquial, film) a very bad movie
- Quel navet, ce film ! ― That movie was such a turkey!
Derived terms
- blanc comme un navet
- chou-navet
Further reading
- “navet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- Avent, vante, vanté, venta
Latin
Verb
nāvet
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of nāvō
Norman
Etymology
From a diminutive of Old French nef (“turnip”), from Latin napus.
Noun
navet m (plural navets)
- (Jersey) turnip
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
navet n
- definite singular of nav
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
navet n
- definite singular of nav
Swedish
Noun
navet
- definite singular of nav.
Anagrams
- vante