nomenclature

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊˈmɛn.klətʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪtʃəɹ/

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
• numericlature

• nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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

nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

1. nomenclature

nomenclature f

1. plural of nomenclatura