Nomenclator definitions

nō'mən-klā'tər
One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.
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A person, specif. a slave in ancient Rome, who announces the names of guests, etc.
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A person who invents names for, or assigns them to, things, as in scientific classification.
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One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.
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An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
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One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
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A document containing such name assignments.
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Origin of nomenclator

Latin nōmenclātor a slave who accompanied his master to tell him the names of people he met variant of nōmenculātor nōmen name nō̆-men- in Indo-European roots calātor servant, crier (from calāre to call kelə-2 in Indo-European roots)

Sentence Examples

  • Eckstein, Nomenclator Philologorum (1871), and W.

  • Most of Ray's minor works were the outcome of his faculty for carefully amassing facts; for instance, his Collection of English Proverbs (1670), his Collection of Out-of-the-way English Words (1674), his Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages (1693), and his Dictionariolum trilingue (1675, 5th edition as Nomenclator classicus, 1706).

  • Hurter, Nomenclator literarius recentioris theologiae catholicae, tom.

  • Hurter's Nomenclator literarius recentioris theologise catholicae, vol.

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