navis

See also: Navis, nāvis, and nāvīs

Latin

Etymology 1

nāvis birēmis (bireme ship)

From Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us, cognate with Ancient Greek ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), Armenian նավ (nav, “ship or boat”), Persian ناو‎ (nâv), and Sanskrit नौ (nau, “ship”).

Alternative forms

nauis (typographical variant)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.u̯is/, [ˈnäːu̯ɪs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vis/, [ˈnäːvis]
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Noun

nāvis f (genitive nāvis); third declension, i-stem

ship
nave (middle or body of a church)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāvis	nāvēs
Genitive	nāvis	nāvium
Dative	nāvī	nāvibus
Accusative	nāvem nāvim	nāvēs nāvīs
Ablative	nāve nāvī	nāvibus
Vocative	nāvis	nāvēs

Derived terms

nāvālis
nāvia
nāvicella
nāvicula
nāviculāris
nāviculārius
nāviculor
nāvifragus
nāvigābilis
nāvigātiō
nāvigātor
nāviger
nāvigium
nāvigō
nāvis longa

Related terms

nauta

Descendants

Aromanian: nai
Asturian: nave
Friulian: nâf, nâv
Galician: nave
Italian: nave
- → Slavomolisano: nava
Old French: nef, naf, nau
- Middle French: nef, nau (Parisian dialect)
  - French: nef (obsolete or poetic)
    - → Breton: nev
    - → English: nef
  - Norman: nef
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: nau
Old Occitan: nau
- Catalan: nau
  - → Portuguese: nau, nao
    - → English: nau
  - → Spanish: nao
- Occitan: nau
Piedmontese: nav
Portuguese: nave
Romanian: naie, navă
Romansch: nav, nev
Sardinian: nae, nai, nave, navi
Sicilian: navi
Spanish: nave
Venetian: nave
→ English: nave
→ Ido: navo

Etymology 2

Inflected form of nāvus (“active, diligent”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.u̯iːs/, [ˈnäːu̯iːs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vis/, [ˈnäːvis]

Adjective

nāvīs

dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of nāvus

References

“navis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“navis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
navis 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)
navis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a powerful navy: navibus plurimum posse
- much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
- (ambiguous) a cutter: navis actuaria
- (ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa
- (ambiguous) a transport or cargo-boat: navis oneraria
- (ambiguous) a merchantman: navis mercatoria
- (ambiguous) to build a ship, a fleet: navem, classem aedificare, facere, efficere, instituere
- (ambiguous) to equip a boat, a fleet: navem (classem) armare, ornare, instruere
- (ambiguous) to launch a boat: navem deducere (vid. sect. XII. 1, note Notice too...)
- (ambiguous) to haul up a boat: navem subducere (in aridum)
- (ambiguous) to repair a boat: navem reficere
- (ambiguous) to embark: navem conscendere, ascendere
- (ambiguous) to embark an army: exercitum in naves imponere (Liv. 22. 19)
- (ambiguous) ships of last year: naves annotinae
- (ambiguous) to weigh anchor, sail: navem (naves) solvere
- (ambiguous) the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
- (ambiguous) to row: navem remis agere or propellere
- (ambiguous) to row hard: navem remis concitare, incitare
- (ambiguous) to back water: navem retro inhibere (Att. 13. 21)
- (ambiguous) the ship strikes on the rocks: navis ad scopulos alliditur (B. C. 3. 27)
- (ambiguous) to land (of people): appellere navem (ad terram, litus)
- (ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves ad ancoras deligare (B. G. 4. 29)
- (ambiguous) to make fast boats to anchors: naves (classem) constituere (in alto)
- (ambiguous) to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
- (ambiguous) the admiral's ship; the flagship: navis praetoria (Liv. 21. 49)
- (ambiguous) to clear for action: navem expedire
- (ambiguous) to charge, ram a boat: navem rostro percutere
- (ambiguous) to board and capture a boat: navem expugnare
- (ambiguous) to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
- (ambiguous) to throw grappling irons on board; to board: copulas, manus ferreas (in navem) inicere
- (ambiguous) to throw grappling irons on board; to board: in navem (hostium) transcendere
- (ambiguous) to capture a boat: navem capere, intercipere, deprehendere
“navis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“navis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin