navette

See also: navetté

English

Etymology

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nəˈvɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

navette (plural navettes)

1. A shuttle bus in France.
   • 2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris, page 45:

     To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2) […]

2. A kind of grape that grows in summer.
   • 1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants:

     The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.

3. The informal vans operating in Brussels.
   • 2020, Wojciech Kębłowski, Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels:

     To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.

Anagrams

• vanette

French

Etymology

From Latin nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -ette (referring to the boat-like shape of a shuttle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

navette f (plural navettes)

1. shuttle (in weaving)
2. shuttle (land vehicle)
3. shuttle (space vehicle)
4. incense boat
5. a kind of biscuit from Marseille, flavoured with orange blossom

Derived terms

• faire la navette
• navette spatiale

Related terms

• navet
• naviguer
• navire

Descendants

• → Portuguese: naveta
• → Romanian: navetă

Verb

navette

1. inflection of navetter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• éventât

Italian

Noun

navette f

1. plural of navetta

Anagrams

• vattene, ventate