Other forms: navigations
Navigation is working out and following a route. Coastal navigation, satellite navigation, navigation skills.
The whole history of it is the problem of longitude, which needed an accurate clock at sea and was not solved until the eighteenth century. On a website, navigation means the menus and links that let somebody find anything.
navigation is a skill.
Latin navigatio comes from navigare, to sail, from navis, a ship.
Latin
nāvigātiōnem
Middle French
navigation
English, today
navigation
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA