nomenclator

American  

[noh-muhn-kley-ter] / ˈnoʊ mənˌkleɪ tər /

noun

1. a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.

2. Archaic. a person who calls or announces things or persons by their names.

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nomenclator British  

/ ˈnəʊmɛnˌkleɪtə /

noun

1. a person who invents or assigns names, as in scientific classification

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Etymology

Origin of nomenclator

1555–65; < Latin nōmenclātor, variant of nōmenculātor one who announces names, equivalent to nōmen name + -culātor, variant of calātor a crier ( calā ( re ) to call + -tor -tor )

Example Sentences

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nomenclator

A letter from George Digby, the Second Earl of Bristol, on behalf of Charles I, reports on the progress of rebel forces under Oliver Cromwell using a set of substitutions known as a nomenclator.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015

You forget, my dear lady," said her nomenclator, "that the young gentleman comes here to discharge suit and service in name of his uncle.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

The philosophical tribe of naturalists, for so they are called by themselves and their admirers, do not therefore depreciate Linnæus when they call him a nomenclator.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

When she comes from the Chalicodoma of the Shrubs, she is smaller still; and, if some nomenclator were to seek to describe her, she would no longer deserve to be called more than middling.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Let us be indulgent to the nomenclator: the dictionary is becoming exhausted and the constant flood that requires cataloguing mounts incessantly, wearing out our combinations of syllables.

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander