Latin

Alternative forms

• nauis (typographical)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.wis/, [ˈnaː.wɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.vis/, [ˈnaː.vis]

Noun

nāvis f ‎(genitive nāvis); third declension

1. ship

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nauta

Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.wiːs/

Adjective

nāvīs

1. dative masculine plural of nāvus
2. dative feminine plural of nāvus
3. dative neuter plural of nāvus
4. ablative masculine plural of nāvus
5. ablative feminine plural of nāvus
6. ablative 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “navis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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