nomenclator

no·men·cla·tor

a person, specif. a slave in ancient Rome, who announces the names of guests, etc.
a person who invents names for, or assigns them to, things, as in scientific classification

Origin of nomenclator

Classical Latin from nomen, name + calator, caller, crier from past participle of calare, to call: see clamor

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nomenclator

noun

One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.

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 ; see nō-men- in Indo-European roots. calātor servant, crier ( from calāre to call ; see kelə-² in Indo-European roots.)

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Noun

(plural nomenclators)

An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
A document containing such name assignments.

Origin

From Latin nÅmenclÄtor (“slave who told master names of persons master met"), from nÅmen (“name") + calÅ (“call together").

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nomenclator - Medical Definition

One who assigns names, as in scientific classification.

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