nomenclature

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊˈmɛn.klətʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪtʃəɹ/

Noun

nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)

1. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:

     It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

2. A set of names or terms.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 4:

     Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.

3. (obsolete) A name.

Synonyms

• terminology

Coordinate terms

• glossary, taxonomy

Derived terms

• nomenclatural
• nomenclaturally

Related terms

• nomenclator, nomenclatory
• numericlature

Translations

set of names or terms

• Belarusian: наменклату́ра f (namjenklatúra), намэнкляту́ра f (namenkljatúra) (dated)
• Bulgarian: номенклату́ра (bg) f (nomenklatúra)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 命名法 (zh) (mìngmíngfǎ)

• Czech: nomenklatura f
• Dutch: nomenclatuur (nl) f
• Esperanto: nomenklaturo
• Estonian: nomenklatuur
• Finnish: nimistö
• French: nomenclature (fr) f
• Galician: nomenclatura f
• Georgian: ნომენკლატურა (nomenḳlaṭura)
• German: Nomenklatur (de) f
• Greek: ονοματολογία (el) f (onomatología), νομενκλατούρα (el) f (nomenklatoúra)
• Hebrew: נוֹמֶנְקְלָטוּרָה‎ (he) f (nomenklatúra)
• Hindi: नामकरण (hi) (nāmakraṇ)
• Hungarian: nómenklatúra
• Irish: ainmníocht f
• Italian: nomenclatura (it) f
• Japanese: 命名法 (めいめいほう, meimeihō)
• Kazakh: атаулар (atawlar), номенклатура (nomenklatwra)
• Korean: 명명법 (ko) (myeongmyeongbeop)

• Kyrgyz: номенклатура (nomenklatura)
• Macedonian: номенклату́ра f (nomenklatúra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nomenklatur (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: nomenklatur m

• Polish: nazewnictwo n, nomenklatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura (pt) f
• Romanian: nomenclatură (ro) f
• Russian: номенклату́ра (ru) f (nomenklatúra)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmeachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: номенклату́ра f

  Roman: nomenklatúra (sh) f

• Slovak: nomenklatúra f
• Slovene: nomenklatura f
• Spanish: nomenclatura (es) f
• Swedish: nomenklatur (sv) c
• Tagalog: kangalanan
• Turkish: terimbilgisi
• Ukrainian: номенклату́ра (uk) f (nomenklatúra)
• Uzbek: nomenklatura (uz)
• Vietnamese: danh pháp (vi)

Further reading

• nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).

Noun

nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

1. nomenclature

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Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

1. plural of nomenclatura