# navigate
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English navigate, from Latin nāvigō, from nāvis (“ship”) + agō (“do”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“boat”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
* (US) IPA: /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, enPR: năv′-ĭ-gāt
* Audio (US):(file)

### Verb

navigate (third-person singular simple present navigates, present participle navigating, simple past and past participle navigated)
* (transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
    He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
** 2024 December 25, Elaine S. Povich, “Self-driving cars aren’t here yet, but states are getting the rules ready”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:Earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation into four crashes of Teslas operating with a partial-automation system (which can navigate highways and steer the car on city streets but requires a licensed driver to be present), including one in which a pedestrian was killed. In a news release, NHTSA said reduced visibility may have led to the crashes.
* (intransitive) To give directions, as from a map, to someone driving a vehicle.
    You drive. I'll navigate.
* (intransitive) To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
    We navigated to France in the dinghy.
* (transitive, computing) To move between web pages, menus, etc. by means of hyperlinks, mouse clicks, or any other mechanism.
    It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.
* (transitive, figurative) To find a way through a difficult situation or process.
** 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.
** 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:Complaints have risen in particular from passengers changing trains, who have observed little or no improvement in their ability to navigate between the station's 13 platforms.

#### Hyponyms

* circumnavigate
* negotiate

#### Derived terms

* navigation
* navigator
* navigable

#### Related terms

* naval
* navy

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “navigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “navigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “navigate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* vaginate

## Esperanto
### Adverb

navigate
* present adverbial passive participle of navigi

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

navigate
* inflection of navigare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

navigate f pl
* feminine plural of navigato

### Anagrams

* agentiva, negativa, vengiata

## Latin
### Verb

nāvigāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of nāvigō

### Participle

nāvigāte
* vocative masculine singular of nāvigātus