navigator

navigator

See also: navigátor and Navigator

English

Etymology

From Latin nāvigātor.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

navigator (plural navigators)

1. A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
2. A sea explorer.
3. A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
4. (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
   • 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius (page 38)

     Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]

5. (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.

Derived terms

• inertial navigator
• navigatrix

Related terms

• navigate
• navigation

Translations

officer who navigates

Azerbaijani: naviqator Belarusian: шту́рман m (štúrman) Bulgarian: навига́тор (bg) m (navigátor), щу́рман (bg) m (štúrman) Chinese: Mandarin: 導航員／导航员 (zh) (dǎohángyuán) Czech: navigátor (cs) m Esperanto: navigisto Finnish: navigoija (fi) French: navigateur (fr) m German: Navigator (de) m Greek: πλοηγός (el) m (ploïgós) Hebrew: נַוָּט \\ נווט‎ (he) m (navvát) Interlingua: navigator Italian: navigante (it) m, marinaio (it) m, marittimo (it) m, navigatore (it) m Macedonian: кормилар m (kormilar) Maori: kaiwhakatere Polish: nawigator (pl) m Romanian: navigator (ro) m, navigatoare (ro) f, marinar (ro) m Russian: шту́рман (ru) m (štúrman), навига́тор (ru) m (navigátor) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: морепло́вац m Roman: moreplóvac (sh) m Spanish: navegante (es) m Swedish: navigatör (sv) c Ukrainian: шту́рман m (štúrman)

sea explorer

Belarusian: марапла́вец m (maraplávjec), марапла́ўца m (marapláŭca), марапла́ўнiк m (marapláŭnik), марапла́віца f (maraplávica) Bulgarian: мореплава́тел (bg) m (moreplavátel), мореплава́телка f (moreplavátelka) Czech: mořeplavec m Finnish: merenkulkija (fi) French: navigateur (fr) m German: Seefahrer (de) m Greek: θαλασσοπόρος (el) m (thalassopóros) Italian: navigatore (it) m Macedonian: морепловец m (moreplovec) Maori: kaumoana Romanian: navigator (ro) m, navigatoare (ro) f Russian: морепла́ватель (ru) m (moreplávatelʹ), морепла́вательница (ru) f (moreplávatelʹnica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: морепло́вац m Roman: moreplóvac (sh) m Slovak: moreplavec m Swedish: sjöfarare (sv) c Ukrainian: морепла́вець m (moreplávecʹ), морепла́виця f (moreplávycja)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “navigator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Latin

Etymology 1

From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) +‎ -tor (agent noun suffix).

Noun

nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension

1. a sailor or mariner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs
Genitive	nāvigātōris	nāvigātōrum
Dative	nāvigātōrī	nāvigātōribus
Accusative	nāvigātōrem	nāvigātōrēs
Ablative	nāvigātōre	nāvigātōribus
Vocative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs

Descendants

• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Spanish: navegador

Verb

nāvigātor

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

References

• “navigator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• navigator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Romanian

Etymology

From French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga +‎ -tor.

Noun

navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

Declension

Declension of navigator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) navigator	navigatorul	(niște) navigatori	navigatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) navigator	navigatorului	(unor) navigatori	navigatorilor
vocative	navigatorule		navigatorilor

Synonyms

• (browser): browser, explorator