punctator
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.
noun
An official charged with keeping track of attendance at religious services.
noun
A secretary for a choir who copied music and often pointed to the correct note during practice.
noun
One who punctuates.
Example Sentences
- "In the Hebrew notation the one dot for [i] and the two dots for [e] go back to the Nestorian punctators; but in Hebrew they are used exclusively to stand for these vowel"
- "The punctator calls their names and keeps an account of the absent."
- "The punctator must note as absent those who come to mass after the last Kyrie, those who do not chant, those who talk or who wander about in the choir, who leave beforre the end of mass, and those who do not wear the choral dress."
- "In collegiate churches it was often one of the singers who performed the role of punctator, and he sent his report to the maître de chapelle or the chapter as a whole."
- "Their "punctator," or secretary, was a Spaniard, Cristofano de Hoyeda, whose recording of a protest against Palestrina's admission to the choir has already been mentioned."
- "Choirbooks were placed around the facistol or big podium, allowing the singers to be grouped around them. A punctator – who also doubled as music copyist and choirbook archivist – would point to the notes to be sung with a long stick."