navet

See also: nāvēt

Cahuilla

navet

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?] (compare Classical Nahuatl nohpalli).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑvɛt/

Noun

návet (plural návtem)

1. a kind of prickly pear cactus, perhaps Opuntia engelmannii
2. cactus (any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants)

Danish

Noun

navet n

1. definite singular of nav

French

FWOTD – 14 January 2019

Etymology

From Old French nef (“turnip”) +‎ -et, from Latin nāpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vɛ/, /na.ve/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

navet m (plural navets)

1. turnip (white root of Brassica rapa)
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

     Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.

     Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.

2. (colloquial, film) a very bad movie; a turkey

   Quel navet, ce film ! ― That movie was such a turkey!

Derived terms

• blanc comme un navet
• chou-navet

Further reading

• “navet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Avent, vante, vanté, venta

Latin

Verb

nāvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of nāvō

Norman

Etymology

From a diminutive of Old French nef (“turnip”), from Latin napus.

Noun

navet m (plural navets)

1. (Jersey) turnip

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

navet n

1. definite singular of nav

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

navet n

1. definite singular of nav

Swedish

Noun

navet

1. definite singular of nav

Anagrams

• vante