Amanuensis

Definition: Amanuensis

Amanuensis

Noun

1. Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation).

Date "amanuensis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Etymology: Amanuensis \A*man`u*en"sis\, noun; plural Amanuenses. [Latin expression, from, ab manus hand.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Public Administration	House of Commons. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Amanuensis

Synonyms: shorthand typist (n), stenographer (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Recorder	Noun: recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary, register; prothonotary; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls.
Writing	Writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press; (author).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Amanuensis

English words defined with "amanuensis": Amanuenses. (references)

Specialty definitions using "amanuensis": Epistles ♦ Tertius. (references)

Etymologies containing "amanuensis": Tironian. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Amanuensis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (laboratory assistent), Dutch (laboratory assistent), Latin (clerk).

Domain	Title
Books	Amanuensis (reference) Beretning vedr�rende den af Undervisningsministeriet overfor amanuensis cand. jur. Erik H�gh beordrede disciplin�runders�gelse (reference) The Anonymous Amanuensis (reference) (more book examples)
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"Amanuensis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amanuensis" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	21	76,261

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "amanuensis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sekretar (actuary, clerk, draftsman, draughtsman, receptionist, scribe, secretary). (various references)

Arabic		‏ناسخ (copying, pen pusher, scribe), ‏السكرتير (secretary), ‏أمين السر. (various references)

Bulgarian		секретар (actuary, clerk, officer, recorder, registrar, scribe, secretary, writer), преписвач (copyist, penman, scribe). (various references)

French		copiste. (various references)

Greek		γραφέασ (clerk, scribe). (various references)

Hebrew		מעתיק מפי. (various references)

Hungarian		írnok (clerk, junior clerk, penman, penmen, scribe, scrivener, staff sergeant, writer). (various references)

Italian		amanuense. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		筆�"� (copyist), 祐筆 (private secretary), 右筆 (private secretary), 代筆 , 代書人 (scribe), 代書 (scribe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひっせい (brushwork, copyist, lifetime, strokeof the pen), ゆうひつ (private secretary), � いしょに�" (scribe), � いしょ (scribe, sign for another), � いひつ. (various references)

Manx		cleragh screeuee. (various references)

Pig Latin		amanuensisay

Portuguese		amanuence, secretário (Registrar, secretary), copista (copier, penman, scribe, Scrivener). (various references)

Romanian		secretar (amanuenses, clerk, scribe, secretary, writer), persoanã care scrie dupã dictare (amanuenses). (various references)

Russian		личный секретарь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prepisivač (copyist, scrivener). (various references)

Spanish		amanuenses, amanuense (scribe, Scrivener). (various references)

Swedish		sekreterare (clerk, Marshal, secretary), kopist (copyist, forwarding clerk). (various references)

Turkish		yazman (clerk, pencil pusher, quill-driver, scribe, script girl, secretary), sekreter (girl friday, secretarial, secretary), kâtip (clerk, pencil pusher, quill-driver, scribe, secretary, typist). (various references)

Ukranian		секретар (actuary, clerk, receptionist, scorekeeper, secretary), переписувач (copier, copyist, engrosser, penman, scribe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Amanuensis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amanuencis, amanuenesis, amanuenis, amanuesis, amanvensis, amenuensis, ammanuensis, ammenuensis, Ananeosis, emanuenses, emanuensis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "amanuensis" (pronounced 'A*man`u*en"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis, Coreopsis. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-m-n-n-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: anamnesis.
	-2 letters: amnesias, animuses.
	-3 letters: amnesia, amusias, anemias, inseams, minuses, nanisms, nauseas, samisen, siennas, unseams.
	-4 letters: amines, amuses, amusia, anemia, animas, animes, animus, anises, anuses, assume, ennuis, inanes, insane, inseam, manias, mannas, manses, mensas, mesian, messan, misuse, nanism, nausea, numina, sanies, sansei, saunas, seaman, semina, sennas, sensum, sienna, sunnas, unmans, unseam, usneas.
	-5 letters: amain, amass.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-m-n-n-s-s-u"
	+4 letters: neuraminidases.
	+5 letters: agribusinessman, fundamentalisms, fundamentalists, magnanimousness, neuroanatomists, uncompassionate.
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