nuncupatio

From nuncupō (“name, call by name”) +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nʊŋ.kʊˈpaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [nuŋ.kuˈpat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]

nuncupātiō f (genitive nuncupātiōnis); third declension

1. a naming
2. an appellation
3. a naming or appointing as heir
4. a dedication (of a book)
5. a public pronouncement of vows

Third-declension noun.

• “nuncupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nuncupatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nuncupatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nuncupatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nuncupatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin