nomenclator

American  

[noh-muhn-klay-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 )

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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 will be exposed to the vile gabble of a Syrian porter, and to the extortions of a Libyan nomenclator, whose memory must be fee'd, if he is not to forget your name.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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 Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

What, will Cupid turn nomenclator, and cry them?

From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson

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