nuncio

See also: Nuncio and núncio

English

Etymology

From Spanish nuncio, from Latin nūntius (“envoy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌnʃiˌoʊ/, /-siˌoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nuncio (plural nuncios)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
2. (by extension) One who bears a message; a messenger.
   • 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 18:

     [O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead ſtand, not knovving vvhat to doe or ſay; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for nevv Nuntio’s from Chriſt, to aſſoil theſe benighted queſtions, and to give nevv Orders for nevv Churches.

   • 1672, Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend, § 2:

     Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio’s, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends.

3. (historical) Any member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.

Derived terms

• nuncioship
• nunciotist

Related terms

• internuncio
• nunciature
• Pro-nuncio (defunct since 1991)

Translations

title used for Catholic clerics

• Armenian: նվիրակ (hy) (nvirak)
• Bulgarian: нунций (bg) m (nuncij)
• Carpathian Rusyn: ну́нцій m (núncij)
• Czech: nuncius m
• Dutch: nuntius (nl) m
• Esperanto: nuncio (eo)
• Finnish: nuntius (fi)
• French: nonce (fr) m
• Greek: νούντσιος (el) m (noúntsios)
• Latin: nuntius (la) m
• Polish: nuncjusz (pl) m, nuncjusz apostolski (pl) m
• Portuguese: núncio (pt) m
• Romanian: nunțiu (ro) m
• Russian: ну́нций (ru) m (núncij)
• Serbo-Croatian: nuncij (sh) m
• Slovak: nuncius m
• Spanish: nuncio m or f
• Tagalog: nunsyo
• Thai: เอกอัครสมณทูต (èek-àk-krá-sà-má-ná-tûut)
• Ukrainian: ну́нцій m (núncij)

one who bears a message — see messenger

member of a Sejm of a Polish realm

• Polish: nuncjusz apostolski (pl) m

References

• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.), volume VI (L–N), part ii (M–N, 1908), § 2 (N, ed. William Alexander Craigie), page 263 s.v. “Nuncio”

Further reading

• nuncio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• uncoin

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ki.oː/, [ˈnuːŋkioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡ʃi.o/, [ˈnun̠ʲt͡ʃio]

Noun

nūnciō m

1. dative/ablative singular of nūncius

References

• “nuncio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nūntius.

Noun

nuncio m (plural nuncios)

1. messenger
2. (Catholicism) nuncio

Further reading

• “nuncio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16