Amanuensis Definition
One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
- penner
- word-slinger
- letterer
- inkslinger
- chirographer
- shorthand-typist
- stenographer
Other Word Forms of Amanuensis
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Origin of Amanuensis
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Latin āmanuēnsis from the phrase (servus) ā manū (slave) at handwriting ā, ab by ab–1 manū ablative of manus hand man-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Latin āmanuēnsis (“secretary”), from ab, "from, off (of)" + manus, "hand" + -ensis, "of or from (a place)".
From Wiktionary
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