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From commentor + -tor. In the medieval sense of “jailer”, from the jailer’s duty of writing commentārii(“memoranda”) with records of those held in custody.
commentator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
commentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Souter, Alexander (1949) “commentator”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 62
Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “commentator”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 217
commentator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016