different between nunciature vs nuncio

English

Etymology

From Latin nunciare, nuntiare (“to announce, report”), from nuncius, nuntius (“messenger”). Compare French nonciature, Italian nunziatura.

Noun

nunciature (plural nunciatures)

1. The status or rank of a nuncio.
2. The building and staff of a nuncio; the equivalent of an embassy for the Holy See.
   • 2013, David Alvarez, Revd Robert A., SJ Graham, Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945, Routledge ?ISBN, page 164

     During the first winter of the war, a junior officer in the nunciature to Italy was summoned to the foreign ministry by the chef de cabinet of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano to review some matter of ecclesiastical property.

3. The term of service of a nuncio.
   • 2002, Philippe Levillain, The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies, Psychology Press ?ISBN, page 1201

     The Warsaw nuncio was content to preach a spirit of peace, and was severely taken to task by the Polish press during the summer of 1920. This cast something of a shadow over the final period of his nunciature.

Translations

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