amanuensis

Meaning

1. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
2. A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.

Synonyms

scribe

secretary

clerk

writer

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shorthand typist

stenographer

copyist

private secretary

courier

transcribe

notary public

escritoire

receptionist

scrivener

secretaire

transactor

Translations

amanuense

Schreiber

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secretaris

amanuense

copista

Sekretär

copiste

amanuense

yazıcı

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sekreter

kâtip

öffentlicher Schreiber

estenògraf

stellvertretendes Schreiben

Briefsteller

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˌmænjuˈɛnsɪs/

Etymology

From Latin āmanuēnsis (“secretary”), from ab- (“from, off (of)”) + manus (“hand”) + -ensis (“of or from (a place)”), early 17th c.