The story
- Latin · borrowed fromnōmenclātūra“a calling by name, list of names”
- English todaynomenclature
Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.
Words from the same roots
Latinnōmenclātūra all →
nomenklatura
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.