nomenclature
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra, from nōmen ("name") + calāre ("call").
Pronunciation Nounnomenclature
- A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, 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.
- A set of names or terms.
- (obsolete) A name.
- French: nomenclature
- German: Nomenklatur
- Italian: nomenclatura
- Portuguese: nomenclatura
- Russian: номенклату́ра
- Spanish: nomenclatura
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