1. 1教廷大使(教宗派駐外國的外交代表)

    A nuncio is the Pope’s official representative in another country — the Vatican’s diplomat. He is not a tourist priest and not simply “any Catholic bishop abroad.” A nuncio lives in that country, speaks for the Holy See to the government, and also reports back to Rome. In rank he is treated much like an ambassador. The full title you will see is apostolic nuncio. The word belongs to church and diplomatic English; ordinary people rarely need it unless they are reading the news about the Vatican. It is always about the Pope’s envoy, not a messenger for a king or a company.

組成From Spanish nuncio, from Latin nuntius, “envoy, messenger.”

同家族的字

  • announceannounce comes from Latin nuntiare, “to report,” from the same nuntius, “messenger”

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Nuncioname

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    A surname.

nuncionoun/ˈnʌnʃiˌoʊ/

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    CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismThe ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.

    • He was anxious to make an immediate and lasting peace with Spain; refused to receive a special embassy from the Hollanders; his ambassador at Paris was known to be on terms of intimacy with the Pope's Nuncio; […].
    • His ecclesiastical appointments showed how rapidly he had made his way, how supple was his mind: first of all secretary to the nunciature at Lisbon; then created titular Bishop of Thebes, and entrusted with a delicate mission in Brazil; on his return appointed nuncio first at Brussels and next at Vienna; […].
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    One who bears a message; a messenger.

    • [O]thers, held very good men, are at a dead ſtand, not knovving vvhat to doe or ſay; and are therefore called Seekers, looking for nevv Nuntio’s from Chriſt, to aſſoil theſe benighted queſtions, and to give nevv Orders for nevv Churches.
    • Altho at this distance you had no early Account or Particular of his Death; yet your Affection may cease to wonder that you had not some secret Sense or Intimation thereof by Dreams, thoughtful Whisperings, Mercurisms, Airy Nuncio’s, or sympathetical Insinuations, which many seem to have had at the Death of their dearest Friends.
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    historicalAny member of any Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Galicia (of the Austrian Partition), Duchy of Warsaw, Congress Poland, or Grand Duchy of Posen.

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