Amanuensis

Pronunciation

• enPR: É™-măn'yoÍžo-Ä•nʹsÄ­s
• Hyphenation: amanu + en + sis

Origin

From Latin āmanuēnsis ("secretary"), from ab, "from, off (of)" + manus, "hand" + -ensis, "of or from (a place)".

Full definition of amanuensis

Noun

1. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
2. A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, “… We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?...”