lexicographer

From French lexicographe, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”); synchronically, lexico- +‎ -grapher.

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lexicographer (plural lexicographers)

1. One who writes or compiles a dictionary
   • 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language:

     A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

   • 1811, George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace:

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

   • 1860, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica:

     The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem.

• dictionarian
• dictionarist
• lexicographist

• lexicography
• lexicon
• lexicologist