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noun
- a person who writes glosses; glossarist.
- one of the medieval interpreters of the Roman and canon laws.
noun
- Also called: glossarist, glossist, glossographer a writer of glosses and commentaries, esp (in the Middle Ages) an interpreter of Roman and Canon Law
- a compiler of a glossary
“writer of glosses,” late 14c., from Medieval Latin glossator, from Latin glossa (see gloss (n.2)). Also in same sense were glossographer (c.1600), glossographist (1774).