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

I have somewhere read that God created Adam, the nomenclator, saying to him: You are the story-teller.

From Balzac by Frederick Lawton

In a London drawing-room, where the murmur of urbane colloquy rose and fell, broken occasionally by the voice of the nomenclator announcing new arrivals, two ladies, seated in a recess, were exchanging confidences.

From The Emancipated by George Gissing

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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

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