English Online Dictionary. What means navigator? What does navigator mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin nāvigātor.
Pronunciation
Noun
navigator (plural navigators)
- A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
- A sea explorer.
- A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
- (computing) A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
- (obsolete) A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
Derived terms
- inertial navigator
- navigatrix
Related terms
- navigate
- navigation
Translations
References
Latin
Etymology 1
From nāvigō (“sail, navigate”) + -tor (agent noun suffix).
Noun
nāvigātor m (genitive nāvigātōris); third declension
- a sailor or mariner
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
- French: navigateur
- Italian: navigatore
- Portuguese: navegador
- Romanian: navigator
- Spanish: navegador
- Venetian: navigadóre
Etymology 2
Verb
nāvigātor
- 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.
Romanian
Alternative forms
- навигатор (navigator) — Moldovan Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Borrowed from French navigateur, Italian navigatore. Equivalent to naviga + -tor.
Noun
navigator m (plural navigatori, feminine equivalent navigatoare)
- navigator
- (computing) browser
- Synonyms: browser, explorator
Declension
Further reading
- navigator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)