nomenclator

[ noh-muhn-kley-ter ]

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.

nomenclator

/ ˈnəʊmɛnˌkleɪtə /

noun

1. a person who invents or assigns names, as in scientific classification

Word History and Origins

Origin of nomenclator¹

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 )

Word History and Origins

Origin of nomenclator¹

C16: from Latin, from nōmen name + calāre to call

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

Behind the chair of the Count, as a sort of nomenclator of the different dishes, had placed himself worthy Ma�tre Jerome Riquet.

From Project Gutenberg

He brought them into the basilica, a long open gallery which lighted the various apartments, and in which clients and visitors erst awaited the call of the Nomenclator.

From Project Gutenberg

But that which is most remarkable here is, the reasons assigned to Maximilian by the cardinal Commendon to justify this pontifical act: Commendon said, that the pope had deposed Childerick, invested Pepin, transferred the empire of the East into the West, appointed the electors, confirmed and crowned the emperors; from whence he concludes that the pope is the distributor of thrones, of titles, and in some sort, the nomenclator of princes, as Adam had been that of animals.

From Project Gutenberg

The Impennes, or Penguins, which form the eighteenth order of birds, according to the arrangement of the ‘Nomenclator,’ are a group specially characteristic of high Antarctic latitudes.

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