Glossator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Glossator is a noun meaning One who writes glosses.
Meaning
One who writes glosses.
More Meanings
- (historical, law) 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.
Example Sentences
One to two generations after its copying, an extensive but intermittent interlinear Latin gloss [...] was added[.] [...] The glossator also added a single [Old English] gloss
Word Forms
- glossators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include glosser, glossist, glossographer, glossarian, glossologist, glossarist.
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