Other forms: nomenclatures
Nomenclature is the system of names used in a field. Binomial nomenclature, the standard nomenclature, confusing nomenclature.
Binomial nomenclature is the two-part Latin naming of species, so every organism has one accepted name worldwide whatever the local one is. In any technical field the nomenclature is what everybody argues about first.
1nounnomenclatureThe system of names used in a field.
“Students of chemistry must learn the nomenclature of organic compounds.”
nomenclature is a system.
Latin nomenclatura means a calling by name, from nomen, a name, plus calare, to call.
Latin
nōmenclātūra — a calling by name, list of names
English, today
nomenclature
Built from
Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). a doublet of nomenklatura.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA