A person who writes glosses or annotations; a scholar or lexicographer who compiles glossaries or explains texts through annotations.
From glossary plus -ian suffix (person who practices or specializes in something), meaning one who specializes in making glosses and glossaries.
Glossarians were like Wikipedia editors before Wikipedia existed—obsessive scholars who filled margins with tiny explanations, making difficult texts readable for others.
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