dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/nun_MW.json

{
  "nunciate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that proclaims : nuncio":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin nunci us, nuntius messenger, message + English -ate":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259n(t)s\u0113\u0259\u0307t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135439",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "nunciature":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a papal diplomatic mission headed by a nuncio":[],
      ": the office or period of office of a nuncio":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The nunciature told him in an email that the case was submitted to the Apostolic Administrator of Barquisimeto. \u2014 Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
      "The nunciature did not respond to a request from The Post for comment. \u2014 Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
      "The Holy See nunciature in Mexico said Archbishop Scicluna and Msgr. \u2014 Juan Montes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2020",
      "Lantheaume was prepared to testify that his predecessor in the nunciature had communicated Pope Benedict\u2019s sanctions to Cardinal McCarrick. \u2014 Robert P. George, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2018",
      "Also of interest would be letters about those sanctions from the Vatican to the nunciature , from the Vatican to Cardinal Wuerl, or from a Vatican official to Archbishop Vigan\u00f2. \u2014 Robert P. George, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2018",
      "The Vatican has yet to establish an embassy, called a nunciature , in the country. \u2014 Elizabeth Dias, Time , 13 Sep. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1608, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian nunciatura , from nuncio":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-ch\u0259r",
      "-\u02cctu\u0307r",
      "-\u02cctyu\u0307r",
      "\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccchu\u0307r",
      "\u02c8nu\u0307n(t)-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084134",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "nuncio":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a papal legate of the highest rank permanently accredited to a civil government":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The man on the other end of the line identified himself as the papal nuncio . \u2014 Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022",
      "In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022",
      "So have all the ambassadors in Kyiv except the one from Poland and the papal nuncio from the Vatican. \u2014 Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "On Saturday, the Vatican announced that the Nicaraguan government had expelled the papal nuncio , Msgr. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "The nuncio asked him to describe those elements in a letter. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 20 Nov. 2020",
      "The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, chicagotribune.com , 2 Nov. 2020",
      "The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 Fox News , 2 Nov. 2020",
      "The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Nov. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1512, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian, from Latin nuntius messenger, message":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u02cc\u014d",
      "\u02c8nu\u0307n(t)-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203244",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "nuncle":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": uncle":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "by alteration (from misdivision of an uncle )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091318",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "nuncupate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to declare (a will) publicly : proclaim":[
        "how doth that will appear \u2026 in whose presence did he nuncupate it",
        "\u2014 Isaac Barrow"
      ],
      ": to inscribe to by way of compliment : dedicate":[
        "nuncupating my litany to your ladyship",
        "\u2014 John Bastwick"
      ],
      ": to utter solemnly : pronounce":[
        "they do here \u2026 nuncupate this deliberate vow",
        "\u2014 Edmund Burke"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin nuncupatus , past participle of nuncupare to name, declare, dedicate, contraction of nomen capere , from nomen name + capere to take":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259\u014bky\u0259\u02ccp\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234815",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "nuncupation":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an oral will":[
        "the dying seaman made a nuncupation in favor of his mother"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin nuncupation-, nuncupatio , from nuncupatus (past participle of nuncupare to name, declare) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104706",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "nuncupative":{
    "antonyms":[
      "paper",
      "written"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": not written : oral":[
        "a nuncupative will"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the soldier left a nuncupative will that was witnessed by two of his comrades"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Medieval Latin nuncupativus , from Late Latin, so-called, from Latin nuncupatus , past participle of nuncupare to name, probably ultimately from nomen name + capere to take \u2014 more at name , heave entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259n-kyu\u0307-\u02ccp\u0101-tiv",
      "\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-",
      "\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-ky\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101-tiv, n\u0259n-\u02c8ky\u00fc-p\u0259-tiv",
      "\u02ccn\u0259n-\u02c8ky\u00fc-p\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "oral",
      "spoken",
      "unwritten",
      "verbal",
      "viva voce",
      "word-of-mouth"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063907",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "nuncupatory":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": dedicatory":[],
      ": oral":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from (assumed) New Latin nuncupatorius , from Medieval Latin, naming, from Latin nuncupatus (past participle of nuncupare to name, declare) + -orius , -ory":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180554",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "nundinal":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to a nundine":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin nundinalis , from nundinae nundine + -alis -al":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259nd\u0259n\u1d4al"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131225",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "nun":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet \u2014 see Alphabet Table":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8n\u0259n",
      "\u02c8nu\u0307n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English nunne , from Late Latin nonna":"Noun",
      "Hebrew n\u016bn":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "circa 1567, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025704"
  }
}