nomenclature
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.
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Noun[edit]
nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)
- 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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A name.
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Translations[edit]
set of names or terms
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Further reading[edit]
- nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).
Noun[edit]
nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
nomenclature f
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- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 4-syllable words
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- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English terms with obsolete senses
- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian noun plural forms
