annotator

an·no·tate

(ăn′ō-tāt′)

v. an·no·tat·ed, an·no·tat·ing, an·no·tates

v.tr.

To furnish (a literary work) with critical commentary or explanatory notes; gloss.

v.intr.

To gloss a text.

[Latin annotāre, annotāt-, to note down : ad-, ad- + notāre, to write (from nota, note; see gnō- in Indo-European roots).]

an′no·ta′tive adj.

an′no·ta′tor n.

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Noun

annotator - a commentator who writes notes to a text

commentator, observer - an expert who observes and comments on something

Translations

annotator

n → Kommentator(in) m(f)

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Musical annotator Howard Posner, writing for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and referring to the second movement, said, "The resemblance between this movement and the scene in (Christoph) Gluck's opera 'Orfeo ed Euridice' - in which Orpheus calms the Furies with his song so that they let him enter Hades (and bring his beloved Euridice back to the world), has been much remarked on, notably by (Franz) Liszt."

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