nuntia

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Latin

Etymology 1

Feminine form of nū̆ntius (“messenger”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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.
      just as often tenacious of falsehoods and wickedness than a messenger of truth.
      (Fama or Rumor personified as an untrustworthy messenger.)
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative nū̆ntia nū̆ntiae
genitive nū̆ntiae nū̆ntiārum
dative nū̆ntiae nū̆ntiīs
accusative nū̆ntiam nū̆ntiās
ablative nū̆ntiā nū̆ntiīs
vocative nū̆ntia nū̆ntiae

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, 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

Verb

nū̆ntiā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of nū̆ntiō
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