nomenclatura Latin · revision 4288

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=la nōmen, la calō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [noː.mɛŋ.kɫaːˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [no.meŋ.klaˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nōmenclātūra''' ''f'' (genitive nōmenclātūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[nomen|alt=nōmen]] “name” and [[calo|alt=calō]] “to call out”, with the suffix [[m|la|-ūra]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Gaffiot and Etymonline connect it with [[nomenclator|alt=nōmenclātor]] “a slave who named people for his master”.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pliny the Elder uses it in the preface to his third book and of the names of plants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates him 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD defines it as the giving of names to things, or the mentioning of things by name, and Lewis & Short call it Plinian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Georges and Wiktionary also give the sense of a list of names.^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a list of words, as in Beleth.^(DMLBS) English ''nomenclature'' came through French around 1600, first meaning “a name”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of naming.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''nomenclature'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A naming, [[m|en|nomenclature]]; a calling by name.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A list of names.^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A list of words.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nōmen]]

+ * [[nōmenclātiō]]

+ * [[nōmenclātor]]

+ * [[nōminālis]]

+ * [[nōmināliter]]

+ * [[nōminātim]]

+ * [[nōminātiō]]

+ * [[nōminātīvus]]

+ * [[nōminātor]]

+ * [[nōminātōrius]]

+ * [[en|nomenclature]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}