Borrowed fromLatinnūntius(“messenger”).

nuntius (pluralnuntii)

1. (chiefly theater) Amessenger.

   Synonym:nuncius

2. (Roman Catholicism) Anuncio.

Borrowed fromLatinnuntius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʏn.tsi.ʏs/

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• Hyphenation:nun‧ti‧us

nuntius m (pluralnuntiiornuntiussen)

1. (Roman Catholicism) anuncio(diplomatic representative of the Holy See)

The most common plural isnuntii, which is favoured by Catholic sources. The pluralnuntiussen is mostly used by the secular press and to a lesser degree by the Protestant press.

• nuntiatuur

FromLatinnūntius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuntius/,[ˈnun̪t̪ius̠]
• Rhymes:-untius
• Hyphenation^(key):nun‧ti‧us

nuntius

1. nuncio

• nontius,nountius,nūncius

Uncertain; competing hypotheses include:

• FromProto-Indo-European*newH-(“to cry”), whenceSanskritनु(nu,“to sound out, praise”),नवते(navate,“to cry”),Old Irishnúall(“a loud noise”),Tocharian Bnu-(“to roar”). This is tentatively favored by de Vaan.^[1]
• Contracted fromnoventius, from an obsoletenoveō, fromnovus, though this is rejected by de Vaan due to the hypothetical proto-form*no(wo)wentio- not making sense morphologically.^[1]
• FromProto-Indo-European*new-(“to nod”), same source asLatin*nuō,Ancient Greekνεύω(neúō,“to beckon, nod”) andOld Irishnoid(“make known”).^[2] This derivation may be a relic of an era when laryngeal theory was not as widely accepted and*newH-(“to cry”) was considered the same root as*new-(“to nod”), in which case the*new- derivation should be discarded.
• FromEtruscan[script needed](nunth,“to bring”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.us/,[ˈnuːn̪t̪iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.us/,[ˈnunt̪͡s̪ius]

nūntius m (genitivenūntiīornūntī,femininenūntia);second declension

1. amessenger,reporter,courier

   Synonyms:internūntia,praecō

2. anenvoy,message,report
3. acommand,order,injunction

   Synonyms:dēcrētum,praeceptum,iussus,ēdictum,ēdictiō,scītum,dēcrētiō,mandātum,imperium

4. (in theplural)news,tidings,information

   Synonyms:fāma,indicium

Second-declension noun.

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

• nūntiō

• “nuntius”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuntius”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nuntius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nuntius inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to separate, be divorced (used of man or woman):nuntium remittere alicui (De Or. 1. 40)
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭntius”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas,page242

FromLatinnuntius(“envoy”).

nuntius m (definite singularnuntienornuntiusen,indefinite pluralnuntier,definite pluralnuntiene)

1. (Roman Catholicism) anuncio

FromLatinnuntius(“envoy”).

nuntius m (definite singularnuntiusen,indefinite pluralnuntiusar,definite pluralnuntiusane)

1. (Roman Catholicism) anuncio

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