sailor

Significat (anglès)

1. A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
2. A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
3. A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
5. A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.
6. A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), with its widest face facing the outside of the wall.

Amb guionet com

sail‧or

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈseɪ.lɚ/

Etimologia (anglès)

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.