nomenclature
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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
set of names or terms
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Further reading
- “nomenclature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “nomenclature”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).
Noun
nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)
Italian
Noun
nomenclature f
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