punctator

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Noun

punctator m

  1. (taxonomy) Used attributively as a specific epithet; that marks with dots.

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English

Noun

punctator (plural punctators)

  1. One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.
    • 2000, David G. Lockwood; Peter H. Fries; James E. Copeland, Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition:
      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

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References

punctator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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