vocabulist

noun

1. The writer or maker of a vocabulary (dictionary or glossary); a lexicographer.

2. One who cultivates a large or impressive vocabulary.

   There is not the least mystery about the meaning of the name of this river, the greenest vocabulist in the Algonquin tongue knows its meaning.

3. A dictionary or glossary.

   obsolete

Where it comes from

From Latin vocābulum (“vocable”) + -ist. In sense 3, probably after Middle French vocabuliste or its etymon New Latin vocābulista (“vocabulary”). With sense 1, compare French vocabuliste with the same meaning.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry vocabulist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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