Punctator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Punctator is a noun meaning One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.
Meaning
One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.
More Meanings
- An official charged with keeping track of attendance at religious services.
- A secretary for a choir who copied music and often pointed to the correct note during practice.
- One who punctuates.
Example Sentences
The punctator calls their names and keeps an account of the absent.
But the statement of another inquirer, equally learned, "that the punctators borrowed their punctuation from the Arabic," shows how little force this proposition has.
In collegiate churches it was often one of the singers who performed the role of punctator, and he sent his report to the maître de chapelle or the chapter as a whole.
In the Hebrew notation the one dot for [i] and the two dots for [e] go back to the Nestorian punctators; but in Hebrew they are used exclusively to stand for these vowel
Word Forms
- punctators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include punctation, point, punctus, pointing, marker, patach.
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