secretarius

Latin

Etymology

[11th C. onward] From sēcrētus (“confided only to a few”, “secret”, “hidden”; “secluded”, “deserted”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming agent nouns).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /seː.kreːˈtaː.ri.us/, [seː.kreːˈtaː.ri.ʊs]

Noun

sēcrētārius m (genitive sēcrētāriī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

  1. a privy councillor
  2. a confidential clerk, scribe, or secretary
  3. an officer charged with forestry duties, a forest official
  4. a sacrist or sexton, a sacristan

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēcrētārius sēcrētāriī
Genitive sēcrētāriī
sēcrētārī1		 sēcrētāriōrum
Dative sēcrētāriō sēcrētāriīs
Accusative sēcrētārium sēcrētāriōs
Ablative sēcrētāriō sēcrētāriīs
Vocative sēcrētārī sēcrētāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References
  • secretarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • secretarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • secretarius in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “secretarius (subst.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 950/2
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