nuntius

Borrowed from Latin nūntius (“messenger”).

nuntius (plural nuntii)

1. (chiefly theater) A messenger.

   Synonym: nuncius

2. (Roman Catholicism) A nuncio.

Borrowed from Latin nuntius.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʏn.tsi.ʏs/

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• Hyphenation: nun‧ti‧us

nuntius m (plural nuntii or nuntiussen)

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

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

• nuntiatuur

• nontius, nountius, nūncius

Uncertain; competing hypotheses include:

• Contracted from noventius, from an obsolete noveō, from novus.
• From Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to nod”), same source as Latin *nuō, Ancient Greek νεύω (neúō, “to beckon, nod”) and Old Irish noid (“make known”)[1], though this is rejected by De Vaan.[2]
• From Etruscan [script needed] (nunth, “to bring”).

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

nūntius m (genitive nūntiī or nūntī, feminine nūntia); second declension

1. a messenger, reporter, courier

   Synonyms: internūntia, praecō

2. an envoy, message, report
3. a command, order, injunction

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

4. (in the plural) news, tidings, information

   Synonyms: fāma, indicium

Second-declension noun.

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

• nūntiō

• “nuntius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuntius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nuntius 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)
• nuntius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 242

From Latin nuntius (“envoy”).

nuntius m (definite singular nuntien or nuntiusen, indefinite plural nuntier, definite plural nuntiene)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a nuncio

From Latin nuntius (“envoy”).

nuntius m (definite singular nuntiusen, indefinite plural nuntiusar, definite plural nuntiusane)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a nuncio