different between ambassador vs nuncio

English

Alternative forms

• ambassadour (obsolete)
• embassador (archaic)
• embassadour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, ambassateur, from Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), from Medieval Latin ambasiator, from Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *ambahtij? (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos ("servant"; also the source of Latin ambactus (“vassal, servant, dependent”)), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i-h?e?- (“drive around”), from *h?m?b?i- (“around”) + *h?e?- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?/, /æm?bæs.??d??/

Noun

ambassador (plural ambassadors)

1. A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
2. An official messenger and representative.
3. A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.

   As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.

Usage notes

• In English the preferred construction is (Nationality) ambassador to (Country) (the French ambassador to the United States) or ambassador of (Sending Country) to (Receiving Country) (the ambassador of France to the United States).

Derived terms

Related terms

• embassy

Translations

See also

• consul
• high commissioner

English

Etymology

Latin n?ntius (“envoy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?n?i?o?/

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.
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

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) IPA^(key): /?nu?n.ki.o?/, [?nu??kio?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nun.t??i.o/, [?nun??t??i?]

Noun

n?nci? m

1. dative singular of n?ncius
2. ablative singular of n?ncius

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin n?ntius.

Noun

nuncio m (plural nuncios)

1. messenger
2. (Catholicism) nuncio