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adjective
- of or relating to sailors, ships, or navigation: nautical terms.
adjective
- of, relating to, or involving ships, navigation, or sailors
adj.1550s, from -al (1) + nautic from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus “pertaining to ships or sailors,” from Greek nautikos “seafaring, naval,” from nautes “sailor,” from naus “ship,” from PIE *nau- “boat” (see naval).