nomenclature

English

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Etymology

From Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɜʊm.ˈɛn.klə.tjə(ɹ)/

Noun

nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)

1. (obsolete) A name.
2. A set of names or terms.
3. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.

Synonyms

• terminology

Related terms

• nomenclator
• numericlature

Derived terms

• zoological nomenclature

Translations

set of names or terms

• Czech: nomenklatura f
• Esperanto: nomenklaturo
• Finnish: nimistö
• French: nomenclature (fr) f
• German: Nomenklatur (de) f
• Hungarian: nómenklatúra
• Irish: ainmníocht f
• Italian: nomenclatura f

• Japanese: 命名法 (mēmēhō)
• Lojban: cmeci'e
• Polish: nazewnictwo n, nomenklatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura (pt)
• Romanian: nomenclatură (ro) f
• Russian: номенклатура (ru) f (nomenklatura)
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmeachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: nomenklatúra f
• Swedish: nomenklatur (sv) c

See also

• taxonomy

External links

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

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Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

1. plural form of nomenclatura