nomenclator

See also: nomenclátor

English

Etymology

From Latin nōmenclātor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from nōmen (“name”) + calō (“call together”).

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, translated by Aubrey Stewart, On Benefits: Addressed to Aebutius Liberalis, published 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.
4. An early form of substitution cipher.

Synonyms

• (document containing names): vocabulary, glossary

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.
• “nomenclator”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• monocentral

Latin

Alternative forms

• nōmenculātor, nūmunclātor

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noː.menˈklaː.tor/, [noːmɛŋˈkɫ̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /no.menˈkla.tor/, [nomeŋˈkläːt̪or]

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
3. (Medieval Latin) a high-ranking court dignitary

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nōmenclātor	nōmenclātōrēs
genitive	nōmenclātōris	nōmenclātōrum
dative	nōmenclātōrī	nōmenclātōribus
accusative	nōmenclātōrem	nōmenclātōrēs
ablative	nōmenclātōre	nōmenclātōribus
vocative	nōmenclātor	nōmenclātōrēs

Related terms

• nōmen
• nōmenclātiō
• nōmenclātūra
• nōminālia
• nōminālis
• nōmināliter
• nōminātim
• nōminātiō
• nōminātīvus
• nōminātor
• nōminātōrius
• nōminātus
• nōminitō
• nōminō

 

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 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.
  • 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)
• 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)

1. nomenclator

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nomenclator	nomenclatorul		nomenclatoare	nomenclatoarele
genitive-dative	nomenclator	nomenclatorului		nomenclatoare	nomenclatoarelor
vocative	nomenclatorule			nomenclatoarelor