sailor

Signification (Anglais)

  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.

Concepts

col-bleu

homme de mer

Jeannot

Jack

membre de l’équipage

jack

régatier

Panama

Fréquence

C1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈseɪ.lɚ/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

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.

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