nomenclator

== English == === Etymology === From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”). === Noun === nomenclator (plural nomenclators) An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information. 63 b.c., Marcus Tullius Cicero Pro Lucio Murena: Oratio Ad Iudices, 1956, Page 115 If he does not know them, it is deception to pretend that he does, while all the time he has never heard of them until instructed by the nomenclator. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system. A document containing such name assignments. An early form of substitution cipher. ==== Synonyms ==== (document containing names): vocabulary, glossary ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== nomenclature === References === https://web.archive.org/web/20080516150751/http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/nomenclator/ http://books.google.com/books?id=GskPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA511&dq=nomenclator+romans&lr=&ei=CjC8R4iONI-oiQGWibHbBQ “nomenclator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nomenclator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === monocentral == Latin == === Alternative forms === nōmenculātor, nūmunclātor === Etymology === From nōmen (“name”) +‎ calō (“call together”) +‎ -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [noː.mɛŋˈkɫaː.tɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [no.meŋˈklaː.tor] === Noun === nōmenclātor m (genitive nōmenclātōris); third declension a slave who acted as receptionist, keeping track of the names of clients arriving to see his master a slave who kept track of the names of the other slaves for his master (Medieval Latin) a high-ranking court dignitary ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: nomenclator === References === “nōmenclātor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nomenclator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "nomenclator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “nōmenclātŏr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,035/3. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “nomenclator”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “nomenclator”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin “nōmenclātor” on pages 1,186–7 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “nomenculator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 720/1 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French nomenclateur. === Noun === nomenclator n (plural nomenclatoare) nomenclator ==== Declension ====