English

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.
   • 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.

   • c. 20, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Aubrey Stewart (translator), On Benefits: Addressed to Aebutius Liberalis, 1912, page 187

     Pray, do you suppose that those books of names, which your nomenclator can hardly carry or remember, are those of friends ?

   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicoene, Act III

     Daw. I have brought some ladies here to see and know you. My Lady Haughty [as he presents them severally, EPI. kisses them.]—this my Lady Centaure — Mistress Dol Mavis — Mistress Trusty, my Lady Haughty's woman. Where's your husband ? let's see him: can he endure no noise? let me come to him.

     Mor. What nomenclator is this !

     True. Sir John Daw, sir, your wife's servant, this.

2. One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
   • 1969, Reginald Townsend Townsend, "What's in a Name?", in This, That, and the Other Thing, page 27

     The nomenclator's method is first to look about and see if the place has any natural features to suggest a name—like Rocking Stone Farm or White Birches.

3. A document containing such name assignments.

Synonyms

• (document containing names): vocabulary, glossary

Related terms

• nomenclature

References

• 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• nomenclator in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

Alternative forms

• nōmenculātor, nūmunclātor

Etymology

From nōmen ‎(“name”) + calō ‎(“call together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noː.menˈklaː.tor/

Noun

nōmenclātor m ‎(genitive nōmenclātōris); third declension

1. a slave who acted as receptionist, keeping track of the names of clients arriving to see his master
2. a slave who kept track of the names of the other slaves for his master

Declension

Third declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nōmenclātŏr”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,035/3.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the agent (nomenclator) mentions the names of constituents to the canvasser: nomina appellat (nomenclator)
    
• 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)
• “nomenculator” on page 720/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)