prothonotary
英 [,prəʊ'θɒnə,tərɪ]
美 [proθə'notəri]
- n. 首席书记；教庭最高书记（等于prothonotary apostolic）
英文词源
- prothonotary (n.)
- also protonotary, mid-15c., "principal clerk of a court," from Late Latin prothonotarius, from Greek protonotarios "first scribe," originally the recorder of the court of the Byzantine empire, from protos "first" (see proto-) + Latin notarius (see notary). The -h- appeared in Medieval Latin