nautical

English

Alternative forms

• naut. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nautique + -al, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nô′tĭ-kəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːtɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔ̝ːtɪ.kl̩] ~ [ˈno̞ːtɪ.kl̩]
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnoː.tɪ.kl̩]
• (US)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɔ.ɾɪ.kl̩]
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑ.tɪ.kəl/, [ˈnɑ.ɾɪ.kl̩]

  • Audio (US):

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• (Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːtɪ.kəl/, [ˈno̝ːɾɪ.kl̩]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːtə.kəl/, [ˈno̝ːɾə.kl̩]
• Hyphenation: nau‧ti‧cal

Adjective

nautical (not generally comparable, comparative more nautical, superlative most nautical)

1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

   nautical charts

   I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.

   • 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:

     The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]

Derived terms

• aeronautical
• nautical chart
• nauticalese
• nauticalism
• nautical mile
• nautical star
• nautical style
• nautical twilight
• nonnautical
• unnautical

Translations

relating to ships, shipping, navigation, and seamen

Arabic: بَحْرِيّ (baḥriyy) Belarusian: марскі́ (marskí) Bulgarian: мо́рски (bg) (mórski), мореплава́телен (moreplavátelen) Catalan: nàutic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 海上的 (zh) (hǎishàng de), 航海的 (hánghǎide) Danish: nautisk Dutch: nautisch (nl) Esperanto: naŭtika Finnish: merenkulullinen, meri- (fi), merenkulku- (fi), nauttinen (fi) (rare) French: nautique (fr) Galician: náutico (gl) German: nautisch (de) Greek: ναυτικός (el) (naftikós) Ancient Greek: ναυτικός (nautikós) Hebrew: יַמִּי (he) (yamí) Ido: marala (io), navigala (io), marista (io), navana (io), navala (io) Italian: nautico (it) Japanese: 航海の (ja) (こうかいの, kōkai no), 海事の (ja) (かいじの, kaiji no) Norwegian: Bokmål: nautisk Nynorsk: nautisk Polish: morski (pl), żeglarski (pl) Portuguese: náutico (pt) Punjabi: ਜਹਾਜ਼ੀ (jahāzī) Russian: морско́й (ru) (morskój), навигацио́нный (ru) (navigaciónnyj), морехо́дный (ru) (morexódnyj), морепла́вательный (ru) (moreplávatelʹnyj) Spanish: náutico (es) Swedish: nautisk (sv) Ukrainian: морськи́й (morsʹkýj), морехо́дний (morexódnyj) Welsh: morwrol (cy)

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• actinula