protonotary
/ˌprəʊtəˈnəʊt(ə)ri
/ /prəˈtɒnət(ə)ri /(also prothonotary)
noun (plural protonotaries) chiefly historical
A chief clerk in some law courts, originally in the Byzantine court.Oh, you'll tell me the protonotaries and clerks of the court are writers too....
- What was sought by the application for security was an order that the defendants provide security for the costs of the appeal to the prothonotary in a form satisfactory to the prothonotary.
- And the inherent jurisdiction is sometimes invoked by the prothonotary, is it not, as it was in Ziems, I think.
Origin
Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from late Greek prōtonotarios, from prōtos 'first' + notarios 'notary'.
Rhymes
- somatopleure
- somatosensory
- somatostatin
- somatotrophin
- somatotype
- somatotyping
- somber
- sombre
- sombrely
- sombreness
- sombrero
- some
- -some
- somebody
- some day
- someday
- some few
- some hope
- somehow
- some little
- some more
- someone
- someone (or something or somehow etc.) or other
- someone's bark is worse than their bite
- someone's better nature