Meaning

2 senses

  1. One who writes glosses.

    Glossator

  2. (historical)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.

    Glossator

Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who writes glosses:

Origin

From Middle English glosatour, from Medieval Latin glōsātor, glossātor, from glōsāre, glōs

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

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Forms

plural: glossators
Singularglossator
Pluralglossators

regular

Word family

3 related words
Relatedglossatory
Derivedglossatorialpostglossator

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gloryB1glossglossaryglossolaliaglossyglottal

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