nuntia

Latin

Etymology 1

Feminine form of nū̆ntius (“messenger”).

Alternative forms

• nuncia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.a/, [ˈnuːn̪t̪iä] or IPA^(key): /ˈnun.ti.a/, [ˈnʊn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.a/, [ˈnunt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

nū̆ntia f (genitive nū̆ntiae, masculine nūntius); first declension

1. a female messenger
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.188:

     Tam fictī prāvīque tenāx quam nūntia vērī.

     [For Rumor is] just as often tenacious of falsehoods and wickedness than [she is] a messenger of truth.
     (Fama or Rumor personified as an untrustworthy messenger.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nū̆ntia	nū̆ntiae
Genitive	nū̆ntiae	nū̆ntiārum
Dative	nū̆ntiae	nū̆ntiīs
Accusative	nū̆ntiam	nū̆ntiās
Ablative	nū̆ntiā	nū̆ntiīs
Vocative	nū̆ntia	nū̆ntiae

Related terms

• nū̆ntiō
• nū̆ntius

Further reading

• “nuntia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuntia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nuntia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
    

Etymology 2

Inflected form of nū̆ntiō (“to announce”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.aː/, [ˈnuːn̪t̪iäː] or IPA^(key): /ˈnun.ti.aː/, [ˈnʊn̪t̪iäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.a/, [ˈnunt̪͡s̪iä]

Verb

nū̆ntiā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nū̆ntiō