punctator

名词 n.

中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.

One who marks with points, especially in writing Hebrew.

— 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
An official charged with keeping track of attendance at religious services.

— The punctator calls their names and keeps an account of the absent.
A secretary for a choir who copied music and often pointed to the correct note during practice.

— Their "punctator," or secretary, was a Spaniard, Cristofano de Hoyeda, whose recording of a protest against Palestrina's admission to the choir has already been mentioned.
One who punctuates.

— But the statement of another inquirer, equally learned, "that the punctators borrowed their punctuation from the Arabic," shows how little force this proposition has.

punctators plural