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— Lingofacts (@incrediblelingo) February 20, 2017
The word astronaut includes the root naut, from nautes, the Greek word for “sailor.” This suffix can be used to create many travel-specific words. For example, the Argonauts were mythical Greek sailors on the ship named the Argo. Astronaut gets the astro from the Greek word astron, meaning “star,” making an astronaut a “star sailor.”
Source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/astronaut
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