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nomenclator

nomenclator


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nomenclator  \No"men*cla`tor\,  n.  [L.,  fr  nomen  name  +  calare  to 
  call  See  {Name},  and  {Calendar}.] 
  1.  One  who  calls  persons  or  things  by  their  names 
 
  Note:  In  Rome,  candidates  for  office  were  attended  each  by  a 
  nomenclator,  who  informed  the  candidate  of  the  names  of 
  the  persons  whom  they  met  and  whose  votes  it  was 
  desirable  to  solicit. 
 
  2.  One  who  gives  names  to  things  or  who  settles  and  adjusts 
  the  nomenclature  of  any  art  or  science;  also  a  list  or 
  vocabulary  of  technical  names