nomenclator

Meaning

Noun

• An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information.
• One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system.
• A document containing such name assignments.
• An early form of substitution cipher.

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Origin

• From Latin nōmenclātor, from nōmen + calō.