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: /nɜʊm.ˈɛn.klə.tjə(ɹ)/ X-SAMPA: /nQm."En.kl{.tj@(r)/

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.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.

Synonyms

• terminology

Related terms

• nomenclator

Derived terms

• zoological nomenclature

Translations

set of names or terms

• Czech: nomenklatura (cs) f
• Esperanto: nomenklaturo (eo)
• Finnish: nimistö (fi)
• French: nomenclature (fr) f
• German: Nomenklatur (de) f
• Hungarian: nómenklatúra (hu)
• Irish: ainmníocht (ga) f

• Italian: nomenclatura (it) f
• Japanese: 命名法 (mēmēhō)
• Lojban: cmeci'e (jbo)
• Polish: nazewnictwo (pl) n, nomenklatura (pl) f
• Romanian: nomenclatură (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmeachadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: nomenklatúra (sh) f

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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Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

1. Plural form of nomenclatura