#averroes

? Why did the Latin scholastics call Ibn Rushd simply “the Commentator”?

Reading Aquinas for the first time, after years with Eriugena and Boethius, I keep meeting references to "the Philosopher", who is Aristotle, and "the Commentator", who turns out to be Ibn Rushd, Averroes. I'd like to understand how that happened. How did…