Latin

Alternative forms

• nontius, nountius, nūncius

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.

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

Related terms

• nūntiō

Descendants

• English: nuncio
• Italian: nunzio
• Russian: нунций ‎(nuncij)
• Serbo-Croatian: нунциј, nuncij
• Spanish: nuncio

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nuntius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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