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navita
navita
Latin
Noun
nāvita m (genitive nāvitae); first declension
- (poetic) sailor
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
- The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
- Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; II, i, 43–4
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nāvita | nāvitae |
| genitive | nāvitae | nāvitārum |
| dative | nāvitae | nāvitīs |
| accusative | nāvitam | nāvitās |
| ablative | nāvitā | nāvitīs |
| vocative | nāvita | nāvitae |
Synonyms
- (sailor): nauta
Related terms
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References
- navita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- navita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “navita”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.