nuntius

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • Contracted from noventius, from an obsolete noveō, from novus.
  • Others refer it to 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]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.us/, [ˈnuːn.ti.ʊs]

Noun

nūntius m (genitive nūntiī); second declension

  1. a messenger, reporter, courier
  2. an envoy, message, report
  3. a command, order, injunction
  4. (in the plural) news, tidings, information

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative nūntius nūntiī
genitive nūntiī
nūntī1		 nūntiōrum
dative nūntiō nūntiīs
accusative nūntium nūntiōs
ablative nūntiō nūntiīs
vocative nūntī nūntiī

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

Descendants

References

  • 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, 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)
  1. ↑ Tucker, T.G., Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Ares Publishers
  2. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
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