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 use Agassiz's nomenclator; at least two-thirds of the dates in the Cirripedia are grossly wrong.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

What, will Cupid turn nomenclator, and cry them?

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

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

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