Masorete has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)
2
One of the writers of the Masorah.
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Origin
The word masorete is a back-formation derived from Masoretic. It originally referred to the Jewish scribes who preserved the Hebrew text.