Etymology

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Today it means: An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information. Full definition →

Latin nōmenclātor
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  1. Latin · derived fromnōmenclātor“slave who told master names of persons master met”
  2. English todaynomenclator

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

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