secretarius
Latin
Etymology
[11th C. onward] From sēcrētus (“confided only to a few”, “secret”, “hidden”; “secluded”, “deserted”) + -ārius (suffix forming agent nouns).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seː.kreːˈtaː.ri.us/, [s̠eːkreːˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /se.kreˈta.ri.us/, [sekreˈt̪äːrius]
Noun
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
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
- sēcrētārium (Classical)
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sekretaris
- English: secretary
- French: secrétaire, ségrayer, ségrairie
- Italian: segretario
- Portuguese: secretário
- Romanian: secretar
- Russian: секретарь (sekretarʹ)
- Spanish: secretario
References
- 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