nomenclator

n. 命名者, 词汇手册

词形变化

nomenclators 复数 nomenclators

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.

    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.

  2. 2.

    One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.

  3. 3.

    A document containing such name assignments.

  4. 4.

    An early form of substitution cipher.

词源

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

来源：wiktionary