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glossators

glossators is the plural of glossator.

Meaning of glossator

Noun

glossator (plural glossators)

  1. 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...
  2. (historical) 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 capitalized: Glossators

Glossators

  1. (plural) plural of Glossator

Questions about glossators

What is glossators the plural of?
Glossators is the plural of glossator.
What part of speech is glossators?
Glossators is a noun.

Words near glossators in the dictionary

  1. glossarizing
  2. glossary
  3. glossas
  4. glossator
  5. glossatorial
  6. glossators
  7. glossatory
  8. glossatrices
  9. glossatrix
  10. Glossbrenner
  11. Glossbrenners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glossators (page history and authors); Glossators (page history and authors); glossator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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