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单词 glossator
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Definition of glossator in English:

glossator

noun ɡlɒˈseɪtə
historical
  • A person who writes glosses, especially a scholarly commentator on the texts of classical, civil, or canon law.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The examination of the glosses in this codex reveals that the student glossators of this work engaged in a dialectical relationship about how to approach this medieval textbook.
    • The only sort of training I had as any kind of exegete or glossator was being taught for A-level how to read Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens.
    • The author comes to the conclusion that glossators, using scholastic methodology, elaborated their own doctrine of contracts and pacts.
    • Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.
    • Could we expect a replay of the achievements of the glossators and postglossators discussed earlier in this report?
    Synonyms
    interpreter, transcriber, transliterator, paraphraser, decipherer

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from glossare, from Latin glossa (see gloss2).

 
 

Definition of glossator in US English:

glossator

noun
historical
  • A person who writes glosses, especially a scholarly commentator on the texts of classical, civil, or canon law.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Could we expect a replay of the achievements of the glossators and postglossators discussed earlier in this report?
    • The examination of the glosses in this codex reveals that the student glossators of this work engaged in a dialectical relationship about how to approach this medieval textbook.
    • Nicander is a gifted Homeric glossator, but he is neither zoologist nor toxicologist.
    • The only sort of training I had as any kind of exegete or glossator was being taught for A-level how to read Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens.
    • The author comes to the conclusion that glossators, using scholastic methodology, elaborated their own doctrine of contracts and pacts.
    Synonyms
    interpreter, transcriber, transliterator, paraphraser, decipherer

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from glossare, from Latin glossa (see gloss).

 
 
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