"nomenclator" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nomenclators [plural]
Etymology: From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|nōmenclātor||slave who told master names of persons master met}} Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} nomenclator (plural nomenclators)
  1. An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-nomenclator-en-noun-plBWU7uW Disambiguation of People: 57 29 7 7
  2. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
    Sense id: en-nomenclator-en-noun-MrMBtmTZ
  3. A document containing such name assignments. Synonyms (document containing names): vocabulary, glossary
    Sense id: en-nomenclator-en-noun-jvhNCDaC Disambiguation of 'document containing names': 10 12 62 17
  4. An early form of substitution cipher.
    Sense id: en-nomenclator-en-noun-o8jDTx3~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 19 20 50 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 13 19 19 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 10 17 14 36 10 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 17 14 38 10 10 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: nomenclature

Inflected forms

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