navigo

navigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of navigare

• Gavino, Viganò, gavoni, ignavo, vagoni, vigano

From nāvis (“ship”) + -igō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.wɪ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.vi.ɡo]

nāvigō (present infinitive nāvigāre, perfect active nāvigāvī, supine nāvigātum); first conjugation

1. to sail, navigate, seafare, embark
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.237:

     “Nāviget! Haec summa est; hic nostrī nūntius estō.”

     [Jupiter sends Mercury to tell Aeneas to leave Carthage:] “Let him set sail! This is the sum [of it]; let this be our message.”
     (nostri: the “majestic plural” or “royal we”)

Borrowings:

• “navigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “navigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.