/noh"meuhn klay'teuhr/ , n.
1. a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
2. Archaic. a person who calls or announces things or persons by their names.
[ 1555-65; nomenclator, var. of nomenculator one who announces names, equiv. to nomen NAME + -culator, var. of calator a crier ( cala ( re ) to call + -tor -TOR) ]