[noh-muh
n-kley-ter] 
| 1. | a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier. |
| 2. | Archaic. a person who calls or announces things or persons by their names. |
| no·men·cla·tor (nō'mən-klā'tər) n. One who assigns names, as in scientific classification. [Latin nōmenclātor, a slave who accompanied his master to tell him the names of people he met, variant of nōmenculātor : nōmen, name; see n  -men- in Indo-European roots + calātor, servant, crier (from calāre, to call; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots).] |