glossographer

[ glo-sog-ruh-fer, glaw- ]

noun

1. a glossator.

Other Words From

• glos·so·graph·i·cal [glos-, uh, -, graf, -i-k, uh, l, glaw-s, uh, -], adjective
• glos·sogra·phy noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of glossographer¹

1600–10; < Greek glōssográph(os) + -er ¹. See glosso-, -graph ( def ), -er ¹

Example Sentences

In the beginning of the 1st century of the Christian era Apion, a grammarian and rhetorician at Rome during the reigns of Tiberius and Claudius, followed up the labours of Aristarchus and other predecessors with Γλῶσσαι Ὁμηρικαί, and a treatise Περὶ τῆς Ῥωμαΐκῆς διαλέκτου; Heliodorus or Herodorus was another almost contemporary glossographer; Erotian also, during the reign of Nero, prepared a special glossary for the writings of Hippocrates, still preserved.

From Project Gutenberg

St. John Chrysostom, speaking on the subject of Lazarus, formally denies them; as well as the law glossographer, Canon John Andreas, who calls them phantoms of a sickly imagination, and all that is reported about spirits which people think they hear or see, vain apparitions.

From Project Gutenberg

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