c. 1600, "a name," from Middle French nomenclature (16c.), from Latin nomenclatura "calling of names," from nomenclator "namer," from nomen "name" (see name (n.)) + calator "caller, crier," from calare "call out" (see claim (v.)).
Nomenclator in Rome was the title of a steward whose job was to announce visitors, and also of a prompter who helped a stumping politician recall names and pet causes of his constituents. Meaning "list or catalogue of names" first attested 1630s; that of "system of naming" is from 1660s; sense of "terminology of a science" is from 1789.
雙語例句
1. Multiply unsaturated compounds are usually best named by the IUPAC nomenclature.
多重不飽和化合物一般最好用IUPAC命名法來命名.
來自辭典例句
2. Charles trotted out his little bit of scientific nomenclature.
查爾斯炫耀他那點科學(xué)名詞.
來自辭典例句
3. The report condemned " the conception, the philosophy and the nomenclature of'surplus disposal. ""