The corpus record — Latin

nomenclator

nomenclator · m

one who calls

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Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
De Beneficiis 2 · 0.44/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nōmenclātor — Lewis & Short

nōmenclātor (nōmencŭlātor, ōris, m.id.,

Mart. 10, 30, 23; Suet. Aug. 19; id. Calig. 41; id. Claud. 34),

I one who calls a person or thing by name, a nomenclator; among the Romans, a slave who attended his master in canvassing and on similar occasions, for the purpose of telling him the names of those he met in the street, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 5; id. Mur. 36, 37: nomenclatori memoriae loco audacia est, Sen. Ben. 1, 3, 10; id. Ep. 19, 11; id. Ben. 6, 33, 4.—Under the emperors, a slave who told his master the names of the other slaves: servorum causā nomenclator adhibendus, Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 26.

In the wild

nomenclatorem Cicero, Pro L. Murena 77
nomenclatorem Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.2.1
nomenclatores Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.14.6
nomenclatores Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 20
Nomenculator Martial, Epigrammata 10.30.23
nomenclatoribus Apuleius, Apologia 59

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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