amanuensis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=man=u=en=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

amanuensis, n. [L., fr. a, ab + manus hand.].

 A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

amanuensis, n. (pl. amanuenses)
1 a person who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts.
2 a literary assistant.

Etymology

L f. (servus) a manu secretary + -ensis belonging to

THESAURUS

amanuensis

Federal, accountant, agent, archivist, baggage agent, bookkeeper, business agent, calligrapher, chirographer, claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commission agent, consignee, copier, copyist, customer agent, documentalist, dupe, engraver, factor, fed, federal agent, filing clerk, freight agent, functionary, general agent, implement, ink spiller, inkslinger, instrument, insurance agent, land agent, law agent, letterer, librarian, literary agent, loan agent, marker, news agent, notary, notary public, official, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, press agent, prothonotary, puppet, purchasing agent, real estate agent, record clerk, recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar, sales agent, scorekeeper, scorer, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, special agent, station agent, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, theatrical agent, ticket agent, timekeeper, tool, transcriber, travel agent, walking delegate, word-slinger, writer

ROGET THESAURUS

amanuensis

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.

Recorder

N recorder, notary, clerk, registrar, registrary, register, prothonotary, amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls, annalist, historian, historiographer, chronicler, journalist, biographer, antiquary, memorialist, interviewer.