Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glossator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glos-sator
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who writes glosses.

noun

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

Alternative letter-case form of glossator (medieval legal scholar)

Example Sentences

"One to two generations after its copying, an extensive but intermittent interlinear Latin gloss [...] was added[.] [...] The glossator also added a single [Old English] gloss"

Etymology

From Middle English glosatour, from Medieval Latin glōsātor, glossātor, from glōsāre, glōssāre (“to gloss”) + Latin -tor (agent suffix).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: glosatour, glōsātor, -tor

Inflected Forms

glossators (plural)

Derived Forms

glossatorial postglossator

Frequently Paired Words

glossatory glossatrix

Rhymes With

later greater creator narrator traitor translator dictator waiter cater crater curator spectator

Questions

What does glossator mean?: One who writes glosses.
Where does glossator come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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