navicular

Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

navicular (comparative more navicular, superlative most navicular)

1. Shaped like a boat.
2. Relating to boats.
   • 1874, The Canadian Monthly and National Review (volume 5, page 469)

     Sooth to say, as far so^[sic] workmanship alone went, there was much to be desired. Vessels that went "home," looking as if "they'd grow'd in the'oods" — to quote British Jack's description — could not but provoke unfavourable opinion upon our navicular art as a whole.

• cymbiform
• scaphoid

navicular (plural naviculars)

1. (anatomy) A navicular bone.

• scaphoid

From Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.

navicular m (plural naviculares)

1. (anatomy) navicular bone

• osso

• IPA^(key): /nabikuˈlaɾ/, [naβikuˈlaɾ]

navicular (plural naviculares)

1. (anatomy) navicular

   Synonym: escafoideo

• astragalonavicular
• calcaneonavicular
• cuboideonavicular
• cuneonavicular

navicular m (plural naviculares)

1. navicular bone

• “navicular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.