notarius

Latin

Etymology

From nota (“a mark, sign, note”) or notō (“to write down”) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noˈtaː.ri.us/, [nɔˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noˈta.ri.us/, [noˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

notārius m (genitive notāriī or notārī); second declension

1. a person who takes dictation (typically in shorthand) in an official capacity; a stenographer
   1. a clerk, secretary
   2. a notary

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	notārius	notāriī
Genitive	notāriī notārī1	notāriōrum
Dative	notāriō	notāriīs
Accusative	notārium	notāriōs
Ablative	notāriō	notāriīs
Vocative	notārie	notāriī

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

Synonyms

• āctuārius

Related terms

• protonotarius

Descendants

Descendants

• Italian: notaio
• Sicilian: nutaru
• → Czech: notář
• → Dutch: notaris
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: notáras
  • → Indonesian: notaris
  • → Papiamentu: notaris (dated)
• → Old French: notarie (learned)
  • → Middle English: notarie
    • English: notary
    • → Irish: nótaire
• → French: notaire
  • Turkish: noter
• → Old High German: notāri
  • Middle High German: noder, notære, notarje
    • German: Notar
      • → Romanian: notar
• → Byzantine Greek: νοτάριος (notários)
• → Old Irish: notaire, notire
  • Irish: nodaire
• → Portuguese: notário
• → Russian: нотариус (notarius)
• → Spanish: notario

References

• “notarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• notarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• notarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.