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PROTONOTARY

Definition: PROTONOTARY

PROTONOTARY

Noun

1. Same as Prothonotary.

2. The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.

3. Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

4. A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States.

5. Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master.

6. A chief notary or clerk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: PROTONOTARY

English words defined with "PROTONOTARY": Prothonotary-ries. (references)

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Modern Translation: PROTONOTARY

Language Translations for "PROTONOTARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

protonotario (prothonotary). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

протонотарій. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PROTONOTARY

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

prothonotario. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: PROTONOTARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-y"

-3 letters: potatory, pronator, rotatory.

-4 letters: arnotto, oratory, parroty, patroon, portray, pronota, rattoon, rotator, taproot.

-5 letters: aroynt, arroyo, attorn, notary, orator, pantry, parrot, parton, patron, potato, pronto, proton, raptor, ratoon, ratton, rotary, tarpon, torpor, tyrant.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: prothonotary.

 

+4 letters: proportionality, proportionately.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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