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Noun
/əˌmanyo͞oˈensis/,
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amanuenses, plural;
  1. A literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts

  1. stenographer: someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)
  2. Amanuensis is a Latin word adopted in various languages, including English, for certain persons performing a function by hand, either writing down the words of another or performing manual labour. The term is derived from a Latin expression which may be literally translated as "manual labourer".
  3. One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts; A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe
  4. Someone who sits with a special needs student to help them put their thoughts on paper
  5. A person who writes out what someone else dictates, or who copies what someone else has written; a transcriptionist or copyist. Most of Paul's letters contain evidence of having been produced using an amanuensis, e.g. Romans 16:22 where Tertius "who wrote this letter" salutes the readers..
  6. “Today it has the meaning of those copyists or writers who write down everything that is dictated to them” [Zedler’s Universal-Lexikon (1732)].  A commonly-used synonym of the day was famulus (although the latter has a wider meaning)[see]. ...
  7. a secretary or a stenographer, which is a person employed to write another’s words often because they were unable to write for themselves.
  8. n. - (pl. amanuenses ), employee who writes from dictation; secretary.
  9. secretary or stenographer