amanuensis

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 ə-măn'yo͞o-ĕnʹsĭs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
    — As pay was Lady Anne's object, and poor Georgiana was intended to be the amanuensis, should she be found capable of forming sentences out of disjointed hints, and of wrapping foul facts in clean composition.
  2. A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.
    — In consequence of this fashion of authors dictating their works, expedition came to be considered of the utmost importance; it was regarded as the chief accomplishment of an amanuensis; and he alone was considered as perfect in his art, whose pen could equal the rapidity of utterance: […]

词形变化

amanuenses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Latin āmanuēnsisbor.
English amanuensis
From Latin āmanuēnsis (“secretary”), from ab- (“from, off (of)”) + manus (“hand”) + -ensis (“of or from (a place)”), early 17th c.
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