Noun: prothonotary
| Singular | prothonotary |
| Plural | prothonotaries |
Sample Sentences
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I accordingly did direct him how to enter an appearance with the prothonotary and to obtain a copy of the plaint or declaration. [1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 231]
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Prothonotary was a pretty impressive-sounding title for a clerk of court, but that’s how the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania rolled. [2012, Melissa F. Miller, chapter 39, in Inadvertent Disclosure (The Sasha McCandless Series; Volume 1), e-book edition, Brown Street Books, →ISBN, page 7542:]
Nouns inflected like prothonotary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotários), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος (notários), from Latin notārius (“notary”). See: Middle English Nouns '
prothonotarie', Latin Nouns '
notārius'.