circumnavigate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin circumnāvigātus, perfect passive participle of circumnāvigō (“sail round something, circumnavigate”), from circum (“about, around”) + nāvigō (“sail, navigate”), from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”). By surface analysis, circum- + navigate.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌsə.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌsɝ.kəmˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
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Verb[edit]
circumnavigate (third-person singular simple present circumnavigates, present participle circumnavigating, simple past and past participle circumnavigated)
- (transitive) To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.
- 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet, published 2017, page 50:
- On horses they circumnavigated the fields, comparing the progress of the harvest on the two halves.
- (transitive) To circumvent or bypass.
- Synonym: go around
- 2006 July 9, “Magic month of memories”, in Times of London[1]:
- Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.
- (intransitive, sailing) To sail around the world.
- 2004 March 10, Edward Gorman, “Van den Heede rewarded for perseverance”, in Times of London[3]:
- Chay Blyth was the first when he circumnavigated in British Steel in 292 days in 1970 in a voyage that some predicted would end in certain death.
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Translations[edit]
to sail completely around something
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to circumvent or bypass
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
circumnavigate
- inflection of circumnavigare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
circumnavigate f pl
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
circumnāvigāte
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