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Definition: Nuncio |
NuncioNoun1. (Roman Catholic) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nuncio" was first used: 1528. (references) |
Etymology: Nuncio \Nun"ci*o\, noun; plural Nuncios. [Italian nunzio, nuncio, from the Latin expression nuncius, nuntius, messenger; perhaps akin to novus new, English new, and thus, one who brings news. Compare to Announce.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Consignee | Diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique, embassy; ambassador, embassador; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache. |
Messenger | Noun: messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio, internuncio; ambassador; (diplomatist). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Internuncios (also heads of missions) rank below nuncios, being of the rank of an envoy or minister, while a legate a latere is a temporary papal representative or a representative for a special purpose.
A Pro-Nuncio is a diplomatic representative who is not of full ambassadorial rank, his status representing the nature of the diplomatic relationship between the Holy See and the state to which he has been assigned. Until recent times a Pro-Nuncio served as the papal representative to the United States and the United Kingdom. Both states in the late twentieth century upgraded their relationship with the Holy See to full ambassadorial level, allowing for the appointment of a papal nuncio.
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations provides that (article 14(2)) "Except as concerns precedence and etiquette, there shall be no differentiation between heads of mission by reason of their class." Some states give special precedence to representatives of the Holy See, which they are permitted to do by the Convention (article 16(3)) "This article is without prejudice to any practice accepted by the receiving State regarding the precedence of the representative of the Holy See."
See also: Foreign relations of the Vatican City
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nuncio."
Crosswords: Nuncio |
| English words defined with "nuncio": Apocrisiarius ♦ internuncio ♦ Nunciate, Nunciature, Nuncios. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nuncio": internuncio ♦ Nunciate, Nunciature. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nuncio" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (forerunner, harbinger). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was, in fact, the residence of the Papal Nuncio. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kuwait | The Papal Nuncio resides in Kuwait City and also represents Vatican interests in the other Gulf States and Yemen. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nuncio" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Nuncio" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nuncio" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nuncio | Last name | 170 | 42,659 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "nuncio": papal nuncio. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "nuncio": pro-nuncio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nuncio papal | 5 |
nuncio | 3 |
apostolic nuncio | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nuncio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ambasador i papës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السفير البابوي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нунций, папски посланик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | nonce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nuntius. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρεσβευτήσ του παπά, παπικόσ έξαρχοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pápai követ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nunzio (Herald). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nuntys, chaghter yn phaab (legate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uncionay cargo (adjutancy, berth, bread, business, function, job, job title, place, position, post, prelacy, responsibility, role, shrievalty, trust). (various references) nunciu, nunţiu. (various references) папский нунций. (various references) papin poslanik. (various references) nuncio apostólico (papal nuncio). (various references) nuntie. (various references) ผู้แทนพระสันตะปาปาในต่างประเทศ. (various references) papalık elçisi. (various references) посланник (ambassador, envoy), посланець (ambassador, delegate, express, messenger, missionary, nunciate), папський нунцій. (various references) đại sứ của giáo ho ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nuntius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nuncio": nuncios. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nuncio": internuncio. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nuncio": internuncios. (additional references) | |
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"Nuncio" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nancie, Nankypoo, Ninio, nunc, nunce, Nunclon, nuni, Nunzio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "nuncio" (pronounced 'Nun"ci*o'): Braggadocio, Capuccio, Cariccio, internuncio, Pasticcio, Senecio. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: conin, union. | |
-2 letters: cion, coin, coni, conn, icon, noun, unci, unco. | |
-3 letters: con, inn, ion, nun. | |
-4 letters: in, no, nu, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: inconnu, nuncios, unction, unicorn. | |
+2 letters: bouncing, buncoing, conquian, continua, continue, continuo, countian, counting, function, inconnus, jouncing, junction, neuronic, nonmusic, pouncing, uncoffin, uncoined, unctions, unicorns. | |
+3 letters: centurion, communing, communion, concubine, conducing, confusing, confusion, confuting, conjuring, connubial, conquians, consuming, continual, continued, continuer, continues, continuos, continuum, contusing, contusion, countians, couponing, enouncing, flouncing, frouncing, functions, ichneumon, incaution, inclusion, incursion, induction, innocuous, inoculant, inunction, junctions, neutronic, nonmusics, nonpublic, nucleonic, pneumonic, trouncing, unchoking, unclosing, uncloying, uncoating, uncocking, uncoffins, uncoiling, uncorking, undocking, unlocking, unnoticed, unvoicing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 75 6E 63 69 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. ..- -. -.-. .. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N u n c i o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0075 006E 0063 0069 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488780697581 |
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