navigator

See also: navigátor and Navigator

English

Etymology

From Latin nāvigātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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: ко́рмилар m (kórmilar), море́пловец m (moréplovec), навига́тор m (navigátor)
• Maori: kaiwhakatere
• Polish: nawigator (pl) m
• Portuguese: navegante (pt), navegador (pt) 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 (cs) m
• Finnish: merenkulkija (fi)
• French: navigateur (fr) m
• German: Seefahrer (de) m
• Greek: θαλασσοπόρος (el) m (thalassopóros)
• Italian: navigatore (it) m
• Macedonian: море́пловец m (moréplovec)
• Maori: kaumoana
• Portuguese: navegante (pt), navegador (pt) m
• 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 (uk) m (moreplávecʹ), морепла́виця f (moreplávycja)

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs
genitive	nāvigātōris	nāvigātōrum
dative	nāvigātōrī	nāvigātōribus
accusative	nāvigātōrem	nāvigātōrēs
ablative	nāvigātōre	nāvigātōribus
vocative	nāvigātor	nāvigātōrēs

Descendants

• French: navigateur
• Italian: navigatore
• Portuguese: navegador
• Romanian: navigator
• Spanish: navegador
• Venetan: navigadóre

Etymology 2

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.

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)

1. navigator
2. (computing) browser

   Synonyms: browser, explorator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	navigator	navigatorul		navigatori	navigatorii
genitive-dative	navigator	navigatorului		navigatori	navigatorilor
vocative	navigatorule			navigatorilor

Further reading

• navigator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)