a messenger, reporter, courier · an envoy, message, report · a command, order, injunction
çekim: çoğul nūntiī · tamlayan nūntiī
köken: Uncertain; competing hypotheses include: * From Proto-Indo-European *newH- (“to cry”), whence Sanskrit नु (nu, “to sound out, praise”), नवते (navate, “to cry”), Old Irish núall (“a loud noise”), Tocharian B nu- (“to roar”). This is tentatively favored by De Vaan. * Contracted from noventius, from an obsolete noveō, from novus, though this is rejected by De Vaan due to the hypothetical proto-form…
kertoa (“to tell, to multiply”) + -ja. In the arithmetic sense "multiplier", coined by Finnish pastor, teacher and author Johan Fredrik Wallin for Luvunlasku- eli räkninki-kirja (1835).