nautical meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

nautical

adj

UK /ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/ · US /ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/

Etymology Borrowed from Middle French nautique + -al, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).

Usually Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

nautical charts
I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.

1 more example

The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:

Derived terms: aeronautical, nautical chart, nauticalese, nauticalism, nautical mile, nautical star, nautical style, nautical twilight, nonnautical, unnautical