lexicographer

noun

Etymology: From French lexicographe + -er, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -grapher.

1. One who writes or compiles a dictionary.

   “Lexico′grapher. […] A writer of dictionaries; a harmleſs drudge, that buſies himſelf in tracing the original, and detailing the ſignification of words.”

   “Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do.”