secretary

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Named by Lord Baltimore after his secretary.

From Medieval Latin secrētārius (“one entrusted with secrets”), from Latin secrētus (“private, secret”), past participle of secernere (“to separate, set apart”), from se- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”).

271 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕁𐔼𐕗𐔿𐔰𐔱𐔰𐔰𐔾 (d'iṗn'abaal) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Albanian: sekretar — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Albanian: sekretare — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Southern Altai: качы (kačï) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Arabic: سِكْرِتِير (sekretēr) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Arabic: سِكْرِتِيرَة (sekretēra) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Arabic: كَاتِب (kātib) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Arabic: كَاتِبَة (kātiba) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Armenian: քարտուղար (kʻartuġar) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Armenian: քարտուղարուհի (kʻartuġaruhi) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Azerbaijani: katib — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Azerbaijani: katibə — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Azerbaijani: münşi — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Bashkir: сәркәтип (sərkətip) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Basque: idazkari — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Belarusian: сакрата́р (sakratár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Belarusian: сакрата́рка (sakratárka) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Bengali: সম্পাদক (śompadok) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Bulgarian: секрета́р (sekretár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Bulgarian: секрета́рка (sekretárka) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Burmese: စက္ကရီတေရီ (cakka.riteri) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Burmese: စာချီ (cahkyi) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Burmese: အတွင်းရေးမှူး (a.twang:re:hmu:) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chechen: йозанча (jozanča) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chinese Cantonese: 秘書 /秘书 (bei3 syu1) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chinese Cantonese: 書記 /书记 (syu1 gei3) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chinese: 秘書 /秘书 (pì-su) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chinese Mandarin: 秘書 /秘书 (mìshū) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Chinese Mandarin: 書記 /书记 (shūjì) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Wu Chinese: 秘書 /秘书 (5pi-sy1) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Cornish: skrifennyas — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Cornish: skrifenyades — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Czech: sekretář — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Czech: sekretářka — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Danish: sekretær — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Dutch: secretaresse — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Dutch: secretaris — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Esperanto: sekretario — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Estonian: sekretär — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Estonian: asjaajaja — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Estonian: kirjatoimetaja — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Finnish: sihteeri — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Finnish: kirjuri — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• French: secrétaire — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Galician: secretario — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Galician: secretaria — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Georgian: მდივანი (mdivani) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• German: Sekretär — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• German: Sekretärin — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Greek: γραμματέας (grammatéas) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Ancient Greek: γραμματεύς (grammateús) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hebrew: מַזְכִּיר (mazkír) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hebrew: מַזְכִּירָה (mazkira) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hindi: सचिव (saciv) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hindi: मुंशी (muñśī) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hungarian: titkár — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hungarian: titkárnő — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Hungarian: adminisztrátor — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Icelandic: ritari — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Ido: sekretario — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Indonesian: sekretaris — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Indonesian: katib — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Interlingua: secretaria — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Irish: rúnaí — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Italian: segretario — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Italian: segretaria — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Japanese: 秘書 (hisho) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Japanese: 書記 (shoki) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Kazakh: хатшы (xatşy) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Khmer: ស្មៀន (smiən) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Korean: 비서 (biseo) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Korean: 서기 (seogi) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Central Kurdish: سِکرِتێر (sikritêr) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Northern Kurdish: katib — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Northern Kurdish: sekreter — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Kyrgyz: катчы (katcı) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Kyrgyz: секретарь (sekretar) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Lao: ເລຂານຸການ (lē khā nu kān) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latin: scrība — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latin: librarius — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latin: librariolus — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latin: sēcrētārius — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latvian: sekretārs — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Latvian: sekretāre — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Lithuanian: sekretorius — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Lithuanian: sekretorė — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Macedonian: секрета́р (sekretár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Macedonian: секрета́рка (sekretárka) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Malay: setiausaha — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Malay: sekretaris — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Malay: katib — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Manx: screeudeyr — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Mongolian: бичээч (bičeeč) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭᠡᠴᠢ (bičigeči) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Muna: dhurutulusi — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Khiamniungan Naga: chāmshāh — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Navajo: naaltsoos ííłʼíní — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Norwegian Bokmål: sekretær — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sekretær — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Pashto: منشي (monší) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Pashto: سکرتر (sekartár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Pashto: سکرټر (sekarṭár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Pashto: کاتب (kātéb) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Iranian Persian: مُنْشی (monši) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Iranian Persian: سِکْرِتِر (sekreter) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Iranian Persian: کاتِب (kâteb) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Polish: sekretarz — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Polish: sekretarka — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Portuguese: secretário — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Portuguese: secretária — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Romanian: secretar — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Romanian: secretară — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Russian: секрета́рь (sekretárʹ) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Russian: секрета́рша (sekretárša) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Scottish Gaelic: rùnaire — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Scottish Gaelic: clèireach — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: секрѐта̄р — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: секрета̀рица — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јнӣк — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јница — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: sekrètār — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: sekretàrica — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnīk — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnica — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovak: sekretár — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovak: sekretárka — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovene: sekretar — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovene: sekretarka — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovene: tajnik — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Slovene: tajnica — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Spanish: secretario — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Spanish: secretaria — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Swahili: karani — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Swedish: sekreterare — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tagalog: sekretarya — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tagalog: kalihim — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tajik: котиб (kotib) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tajik: котиба (kotiba) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tajik: муншӣ (munši) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tatar: секретар (sekretar) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Telugu: కార్యదర్శి (kāryadarśi) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Telugu: సహాయకుడు (sahāyakuḍu) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Thai: เลขานุการ (lee-kǎa-nú-gaan) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Tok Pisin: sekreteri — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Turkish: sekreter — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Turkish: katip — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Ottoman Turkish: تذكرهجی (tezkereci) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Turkmen: sekretar — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Turkmen: kätip — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Ukrainian: секрета́р (sekretár) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Ukrainian: секрета́рка (sekretárka) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Urdu: سِکْریٹْری (sikreṭrī) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Urdu: کاتِب (kātib) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Urdu: مُنْشی (munśī) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Uyghur: كاتىپ (katip) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Uzbek: sekretar — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Uzbek: kotib — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Uzbek: munshiy — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Vietnamese: thư ký — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Vietnamese: thư kí — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Vietnamese: bí thư — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Volapük: sekretan — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Welsh: ysgrifennydd — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Welsh: ysgrifenyddes — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Yakut: секретарь (sekretarʹ) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Yakut: суруксут (suruksut) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Yiddish: סעקרעטאַר (sekretar) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Yiddish: סעקרעטאַרשע (sekretarshe) — person keeping records and handling clerical work
• Armenian: քարտուղար (kʻartuġar) — head of a department of government
• Bulgarian: мини́стър (minístǎr) — head of a department of government
• Bulgarian: мини́стърка (minístǎrka) — head of a department of government
• Chinese Mandarin: 大臣 (dàchén) — head of a department of government
• Chinese Mandarin: 局長 /局长 (júzhǎng) — head of a department of government
• Czech: ministr — head of a department of government
• Danish: minister — head of a department of government
• Esperanto: ministro — head of a department of government
• Esperanto: sekretario — head of a department of government
• Finnish: ministeri — head of a department of government
• French: secrétaire — head of a department of government
• Galician: ministro — head of a department of government
• Georgian: მდივანი (mdivani) — head of a department of government
• Georgian: მინისტრი (minisṭri) — head of a department of government
• German: Staatssekretär — head of a department of government
• Greek: υπουργός (ypourgós) — head of a department of government
• Hindi: सचिव (saciv) — head of a department of government
• Hungarian: miniszter — head of a department of government
• Hungarian: államtitkár — head of a department of government
• Indonesian: menteri — head of a department of government
• Interlingua: secretaria — head of a department of government
• Irish: rúnaí — head of a department of government
• Italian: ministro — head of a department of government
• Japanese: 大臣 (daijin) — head of a department of government
• Japanese: 長官 (chōkan) — head of a department of government
• Korean: 대신 (daesin) — head of a department of government
• Korean: 장관 (janggwan) — head of a department of government
• Central Kurdish: سِکرِتێر (sikritêr) — head of a department of government
• Northern Kurdish: sekreter — head of a department of government
• Malay: setiausaha — head of a department of government
• Malay: sekretaris — head of a department of government
• Manx: screeudeyr — head of a department of government
• Portuguese: secretário — head of a department of government
• Portuguese: secretária — head of a department of government
• Romanian: secretar — head of a department of government
• Romanian: secretară — head of a department of government
• Russian: мини́стр (minístr) — head of a department of government
• Russian: секрета́рь (sekretárʹ) — head of a department of government
• Scottish Gaelic: rùnaire — head of a department of government
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јнӣк — head of a department of government
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јница — head of a department of government
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnīk — head of a department of government
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnica — head of a department of government
• Spanish: secretario — head of a department of government
• Swedish: minister — head of a department of government
• Tagalog: kalihim — head of a department of government
• Telugu: కార్యదర్శి (kāryadarśi) — head of a department of government
• Thai: รัฐมนตรี (rát-tà-mon-dtrii) — head of a department of government
• Tok Pisin: sekreteri — head of a department of government
• Vietnamese: bộ trưởng — head of a department of government
• Chinese Mandarin: 書記 /书记 (shūjì) — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Czech: tajemník — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Danish: sekretær — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Finnish: sihteeri — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Galician: secretario — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• German: Sekretär — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Greek: γραμματέας (grammatéas) — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Hindi: सचिव (saciv) — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Hungarian: főtitkár — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Indonesian: sekretaris — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Irish: rúnaí — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Italian: segretario — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Malay: setiausaha — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Malay: sekretaris — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Manx: screeudeyr — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Scottish Gaelic: rùnaire — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јнӣк — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Serbo-Croatian: та̑јница — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnīk — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Serbo-Croatian: tȃjnica — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Thai: เลขาธิการ (lee-kǎa-tí-gaan) — leading or managerial position in certain organizations
• Armenian: գրասեղան (graseġan) — type of desk
• Bulgarian: писа́лище (pisálište) — type of desk
• Danish: sekretær — type of desk
• Finnish: kirjoituspöytä — type of desk
• Finnish: sekretääri — type of desk
• French: secrétaire — type of desk
• German: Schreibsekretär — type of desk
• German: Sekretär — type of desk
• Hungarian: szekreter — type of desk
• Interlingua: bureau — type of desk
• Italian: scrittoio — type of desk
• Northern Kurdish: sekreter — type of desk
• Portuguese: escrivaninha — type of desk
• Portuguese: secretária — type of desk
• Portuguese: (portugal) secretária — type of desk
• Romanian: secretar — type of desk
• Russian: секрете́р (sekretɛ́r) — type of desk
• Spanish: escribanía — type of desk
• Swedish: sekretär — type of desk
• Bulgarian: секрета́р (sekretár) — sagittarius serpentarius
• Danish: sekretærfugl — sagittarius serpentarius
• Finnish: sihteeri — sagittarius serpentarius
• French: messager serpentaire — sagittarius serpentarius
• German: Sekretär — sagittarius serpentarius
• Hungarian: kígyászkeselyű — sagittarius serpentarius
• Irish: rúnaí — sagittarius serpentarius
• Italian: segretario — sagittarius serpentarius
• Italian: serpentario — sagittarius serpentarius
• Manx: screeudeyr — sagittarius serpentarius
• Romanian: pasăre secretar — sagittarius serpentarius
• Russian: пти́ца-секрета́рь (ptíca-sekretárʹ) — sagittarius serpentarius
• Spanish: serpentario — sagittarius serpentarius