nautic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Nautics” love the spray of the waves more than they do the dust of the roads, and the inland mariner the wash of the river rather than the splash of mud, […]"
- "A complete reversal of policy was now thrust upon an eager company of flying nautics."
- "[T]hat did not deter a certain dynamic personality at Bomber Command from grunting with deep satisfaction to one of his subordinates when he heard the Tirpitz was sunk, “That’s one in the eye for the Nautics!”"
Etymology
A borrowing from Middle French nautique (“of or relating to sailors or navigation”) and a learned borrowing from its etymon, Classical Latin nauticus (“of or relating to ships, seafaring”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós), from ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjectival suffix). Compare earlier nautical (likewise also used as a noun; compare Classical Latin nauticus (“sailor”)).