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

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

I have read a letter said to have been written by your nomenclator Sulla himself, which I cannot approve: I have read some written in an angry spirit.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.

Their nomenclator cleared a way for them to the litter and they sat down again, facing each other, the emperor and the boy.

From Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ by Bacheller, Irving

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

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