glossator

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Etymology

From Middle English glosatour, from Medieval Latin glōsātor, glossātor, from glōsāre, glōssāre (“to gloss”) + Latin -tor (agent suffix).

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glossator (plural glossators)

  1. One who writes glosses.
    • 2008, “Introduction”, in Richard Marsden, editor, The Old English Heptateuch; and, Ælfric's Libellus de Veteri Testamento et Novo, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Section III: The Manuscript, page xlii:
      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
  2. (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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