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- Latin · borrowed fromcircumnāvigātus
- English todaycircumnavigate
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.