nomenclature

Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋ.klətʃə/, /-ˈmɛn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪt͡ʃɚ/, /ˌnoʊmənˈkleɪt͡ʃɚ/

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nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)

1. 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, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.

2. A set of names or terms.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 4:

     Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.

3. (obsolete) A name.

• terminology

• glossary, taxonomy

• nomenclator, nomenclatory
• numericlature

• nomenclature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “nomenclature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “nomenclature”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatūra (“a calling by name, list of names”).

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.mɑ̃.kla.tyʁ/

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nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

1. nomenclature

• “nomenclature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

nomenclature f

1. plural of nomenclatura