nuntia

Feminine form of nūntius (“messenger”).

• nūncia

• nūntia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.a/, [ˈnuːn̪t̪iä]
• nūntia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.a/, [ˈnunt̪͡s̪iä]
• nūntiā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.aː/, [ˈnuːn̪t̪iäː]
• nūntiā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.a/, [ˈnunt̪͡s̪iä]

nūntia f (genitive nūntiae, masculine nūntius); first declension

1. a female messenger
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.188:

     Tam fictī prāvīque tenāx quam nūntia vērī.

     [For Rumor is] just as often tenacious of falsehoods and wickedness than [she is] a messenger of truth.
     (Fama or Rumor personified as an untrustworthy messenger.)

First-declension noun.

• nūntiō
• nūntius

• “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)
    

Inflected form of nūntiō (“announce”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn.ti.aː/, [ˈnuːn̪t̪iäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnun.t͡si.a/, [ˈnunt̪͡s̪iä]

nūntiā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nūntiō