Latin

Noun

sēcrētārius m ‎(genitive sēcrētāriī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

1. a privy councillor
2. a confidential clerk, scribe, or secretary
3. an officer charged with forestry duties, a forest official
4. a sacrist or sexton, a sacristan

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• sēcrētārium (Classical)

Descendants

References

• SECRETARIUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “secretarius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• secretarius in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “secretarius (subst.)” on page 950/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)