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English

Etymology

From Latin n?mencl?tor (“slave who told master names of persons master met”), from n?men (“name”) + cal? (“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, 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.
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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nomenclator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• monocentral

Latin

Alternative forms

• n?mencul?tor, n?muncl?tor

Etymology

From n?men (“name”) + cal? (“call together”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /no?.men?kla?.tor/, [no?m???k??ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /no.men?kla.tor/, [n?m???kl??t??r]

Noun

n?mencl?tor m (genitive n?mencl?t?ris); 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 noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: nomenclator

References

• n?mencl?tor 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)
• n?mencl?t?r 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.
• 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
• “n?mencl?tor” 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: Brill, page 720/1

Romanian

Etymology

From French nomenclateur

Noun

nomenclator n (plural nomenclatoare)

1. nomenclator

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???m?n.kl?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?no?m?n?kle?t???/

Noun

nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)

1. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
2. A set of names or terms.
3. (obsolete) A name.

Synonyms

• terminology

Coordinate terms

• glossary, taxonomy

Derived terms

• nomenclatural
• nomenclaturally

Related terms

• nomenclator, nomenclatory
• numericlature

Translations

Further reading

• nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).

Noun

nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

1. nomenclature

Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

1. plural of nomenclatura