secretarius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
First attested in the 11th century. From sēcrētus (“confided only to a few”, “secret”, “hidden”; “secluded”, “deserted”) + -ārius (suffix forming agent nouns).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seː.kreːˈtaː.ri.us/, [s̠eːkreːˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se.kreˈta.ri.us/, [sekreˈt̪äːrius]
Noun edit
sēcrētārius m (genitive sēcrētāriī or sēcrētārī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
- a privy councillor
- a confidential clerk, scribe, or secretary
- an officer charged with forestry duties, a forest official
- a sacrist or sexton, a sacristan
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sēcrētārius | sēcrētāriī |
| Genitive | sēcrētāriī sēcrētārī1 |
sēcrētāriōrum |
| Dative | sēcrētāriō | sēcrētāriīs |
| Accusative | sēcrētārium | sēcrētāriōs |
| Ablative | sēcrētāriō | sēcrētāriīs |
| Vocative | sēcrētārie | sēcrētāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms edit
- sēcrētārium (Classical)
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: sekretaris
- Asturian: secretariu
- Catalan: secretari
- English: secretary
- French: secrétaire, ségrayer, ségrairie
- Galician: secretario
- Italian: segretario
- Portuguese: secretário
- Romanian: secretar
- Russian: секрета́рь (sekretárʹ)
- Sicilian: sicritariu
- Spanish: secretario
- Turkish: sekreter
References edit
- secretarius 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)
- secretarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- secretarius in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “secretarius (subst.)”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 950/2