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

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.
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     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

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
• 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)
• Lojban: cmeci'e
• Macedonian: номенклату́ра f ‎(nomenklatúra)
• Polish: nazewnictwo n, nomenklatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura (pt)
• 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
• Swedish: nomenklatur (sv) c
• Tagalog: kangalanan
• Turkish: terimbilgisi
• Ukrainian: номенклату́ра (uk) f ‎(nomenklatúra)
• Uzbek: nomenklatura (uz)

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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French

Noun

nomenclature f ‎(plural nomenclatures)

1. nomenclature

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Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

1. plural of nomenclatura