nuncius

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Noun

nuncius (plural nuncii)

1. A messenger.
2. The information communicated by a messenger; a message.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nuncius”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• uncinus

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Latin

Noun

nūncius m (genitive nūnciī or nūncī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative spelling of nūntius [13th C. or earlier]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nūncius	nūnciī
Genitive	nūnciī nūncī1	nūnciōrum
Dative	nūnciō	nūnciīs
Accusative	nūncium	nūnciōs
Ablative	nūnciō	nūnciīs
Vocative	nūncie	nūnciī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• nuncius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)