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A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
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One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
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Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts, (Canada) in Federal Court.
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noun
The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
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Usage: historical
Qualifier: Greek Orthodoxy
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History
From Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotários), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος (notários), from Latin notārius (“notary”).
