glossator
glossator noun: one who writes glosses.
Noun (1)
glossator (plural glossators)
- One who writes glosses.
- One to two generations after its copying, an extensive but intermittent interlinear Latin gloss [...] was added[.] [...] The glossator also added a single [Old English] gloss2008, “Introduction”, in Richard Marsden, editor, The Old English Heptateuch; and, Ælfric's Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Section III: The Manuscript, page...
- A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, (specifically) one who authored glosses on legal texts (especially the Corpus Juris of Justinian), typically distinguished from the later commentators who wrote in extended prose and adopted a more pragmatic form of jurisprudence.
Noun (2) capitalized: Glossator
Glossator (plural Glossators)
- Alternative letter-case form of glossator (medieval legal scholar)
Forms of glossator
| plural | glossators |
|---|---|
| plural | Glossators |
Origin of glossator
From Middle English glosatour, from Medieval Latin glōsātor, glossātor, from glōsāre, glōssāre (“to gloss”) + Latin -tor (agent suffix).
Words formed from glossator
Words that rhyme with glossator
- translator
- alligator
- vibrator
- freighter
- terminator
- waiter
- crater
- curator
- gaiter
- incubator
- plater
- pulsator
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- skater
- cater
- collator
- creator
- dictator
- equator
- escalator
- greater
- later
- relator
- rotator
- collimator
- dilator
- excavator
- frater
- gator
- inflater
- locator
- narrator
- palpator
- saeter
- slater
- traitor
- viator
- awaiter
- baiter
- citator
- corrugator
- dater
- deflator
- dominator
- emasculator
- gyrator
- hater
- hydrator
- legator
- levator
- mandator
- mater
- migrator
- negator
- nitrator
- plaiter
- procreator
- spectator
- tater
- titrator
- 'mater
Questions about glossator
- What does glossator mean?
- Glossator means one who writes glosses.
- What part of speech is glossator?
- Glossator is a noun.
- What is the plural of glossator?
- The plural of glossator is glossators.
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