noun, masculine/na.viʁ/plural: navires
ship
Synonyms: bateau, vaisseau
Related: navire capital, navire de croisière, navire de guerre, navire de ligne, navire-citerne, navire-école, quitter le navire
Inherited from Middle French navire, from Old French navirie, variant of navilie, probably from Vulgar Latin *navilium (compare Old Occitan navili), alteration of Classical Latin navigium (whence also Old French navoi, navie). Cognates with Catalan nau, Galician nave, Italian nave, Occitan nau, Portuguese navio, Romanian naie, navă, Sicilian navi, Spanish nave.