Etymology

-naut

Today it means: Forms nouns meaning voyager or traveller Full definition →

Ancient Greek ναύτης
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromναύτης“sailor”
  2. English today-naut

From Ancient Greek ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.