cosmonaut
space traveler especially in the Russian tradition
Roots
- cosm / cosmos: world, universe, order, or ordered whole
- naut: sailor or voyager
Other words with the cosm / cosmos root
- cosmopolitan: worldly, widely experienced, or at home among many cultures
- cosmos: the universe seen as an ordered whole
Other words with the naut root
Cosmos gives the universe and naut gives sailor. A cosmonaut is a universe-sailor.
The cosmonaut trained for orbit but the word still carries an old sailor inside it.