Nuntiare

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To announce or proclaim news or information formally or officially
2. To deliver a message or communicate tidings from one person or entity to another
3. To make known or disclose important information or updates to an audience or group

Etymology: Latin "nuntiare" meant "to announce" or "to report," and it came from "nuntius," a messenger or the message he carried. The word is the root of a whole family of English words that share its sense of carrying news: "announce," "denounce," "pronounce," and "renounce" all descend from it through Old French, each prefix shifting the meaning. "Denounce" originally meant to proclaim publicly, and in the Middle Ages it could mean to declare war formally, before it came to mean to condemn. The verb "nuntiare" is itself a Latin formation, built on the noun "nuntius," which likely drew on the same stem as "novus," new, so a messenger was etymologically someone who brought new things. This is a plausible but debated connection, so treat it as uncertain rather than settled.

Synonyms: announce, proclaim, report, declare, broadcast

Antonyms: conceal, hide, suppress, withhold, keep secret