notarius

Latin

Etymology

From notō.

Noun

notārius m (genitive notāriī or notārī); second declension

1. notary
2. clerk, secretary; writer of shorthand; stenographer

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).

Descendants

• English: notary
• French: notaire
• Italian: notaio

• 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.