What does glossator mean?
Glossator means One who writes glosses..
Glossator
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
One who writes glosses..
Definitions by Sense
- One who writes glosses.
- (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.
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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
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- glossators
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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
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